Title: What is the essence of an epic?
Product review: Scholarly it may not be, and yes, he takes poetic license. But these are why it is such a worthwhile version -- more true to the essence of an epic: a story for the people filled with meanings on many levels. Be captivated! (then analyze. From here you may go on to the treatises about the Mahabharata). But when you first read The Iliad and The Odyssey, I hope you first read them as stories and had a sense of why spoken tales like these are, well, epics.
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