Question

based on the epics and legends you have studied in this unit and other epics you have read in previous courses why do you think epic narratives were important to ancient cultures?

Answer 1

Epic narratives are important for ancient cultures as that is most of the history preserved about those cultures. It also keeps their traditions, their heroes and their way of living alive. There are several epics which tell us today about the religious concepts of the people living in that time for example the epic of "Beowulf" tells us that people of that time had strong belief in good and bad, and in their metaphors we can derive the concept of Hell and Heaven.