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Notes

Notes to Chapter 19. The epic dimension

Giorgio Buccellati – August 2023

19.1 Action and charatcters, factuality and idealization
19.2 Epics as idealization of history
19.3 The city as the focal point
19.4 Epic memory
19.5 The heroic dimension of the protagonists
19.6 Folkloric elements
19.7 Formative processes
      19.7.1 Organic fusion of separate episodes
      19.7.2 Dramatic extension
      19.7.3 School creativity
      19.7.4 The pinnacle of the formative process: the First Gilgamesh
19.8 Compositional structures
19.9 Literary analysis


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19.2 Epics as idealization of history

  1. On the notion of face-to-face association and the urban revolution see Buccellati 2013 Origins. For a modern view of a planet completely destroyed by an ouside source (the “Crystaline entity”) see Star Trek, episode#.

    – [ Giorgio Buccellati, January 2022]