Silentculture /World Epics

A fight as rep­re­sent­ed in the Kathakali dance the­atre (Kalashas archives) and on a Greek ves­sel (British Museum).

Epics the rhap­sode sang are the nov­els of the Ancient World.

Cf HAGG, Thomas (1998: 110 – 11) on the assim­i­la­tion of epics by the mod­ern novel.