| 释义 |
‖ epos|ˈɛpɒs|
[L. epos, a. Gr. ἔπος word, song, f. ἐπ- stem of είπεῖν to say.]
1. a. A collective term for early unwritten narrative poems celebrating incidents of heroic tradition; the rudimentary form of epic poetry. b. An epic poem: = epic B., epopee. c. Epic poetry.
a.1839Thirlwall Greece II. xii. 124 The epos..in this respect appears to have adhered to the model of the ancient hymnody. 1846Grote Greece II. 234 The age of the epos is followed by that of the epopee. 1883H. M. Kennedy tr. Ten Brink's E.E. Lit. 148 The ancient Epos hardly survived.
b.1855Browning Men & Women ii. Cleon 172 That epos on thy hundred plates of gold Is mine. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh v. 155 Every age..expects a morn And claims an epos. 1858Trench Parables 45 The action, gradually unfolding itself of an Epos.
c.1835J. B. Robertson tr. Schlegel's Philos. Hist. (1846) 6 The author next passes in review the Hesiodic epos, the middle epos, or the works of the Cyclic poets. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. viii. (1872) 285 Almost rises into epos and prophecy.
2. transf. A series of striking events worthy of epic treatment.
1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 234 All these episodes of the great epos [the insurrection of Paris] were similar in character, and imbodied the same lessons. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. (1878) Prel. 2 She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. |