Early story-tellers ……………

The term epic is applied to a wide variety of works, ranging from the earliest oral narrative poems to some modern novels. An epic is a long poem or prose work, retelling important events in the life of a central hero, who is usually seen as representative of his culture. The earliest epics were composed before the invention of writing, in the form of poetry developed by many generations of story-tellers. These early oral poems are storehouses of myth in which human heroes Interact with gods.