Question

Compare and Contrast Greece epic poems and fables. Epic Poems Fables How were they different from fables? How were they different from epic poems?

Answer 1

Answer:

Epics and fables differ in the following ways

• Epics most of time are true, while fables are often fictitious
• Epics have a more elevated language than fables.
• Fables often make use of ordinary animals and creatures, while epics use legends, deities or demigods

Explanation:

An epic can be seen as a lengthy narrative poem, that expounds the feats of a legend or hero in time past. A fable can also be seen as a narrative, whose primary purpose is to instill good morals and teach lessons to people (most of the time children), hence, are often made up (fictitious) and make use of animals and inanimate objects in their narrative.

The points mentioned above can be seen as some clear cut differences between epics and fables.

Answer 2

Answer:

Epic poems are long narrative stories of heroic deals of individuals while fables are short stories that convey moral lessons.

Explanation:

Epic poems differ from fables in that epic stories are told of great adventures and heroic efforts to bring glory to Greeks. The word epic is from Greek word 'epos' meaning word, story or poem. Epics are real adventurous stories Examples of such heroic adventures can be seen from the stories of Odyssey and Iiliad that told the story of Greek Trojan War. Both stories depicts the tactical heroic adventures that brought glory to Greek.

Fables are very short  stories with lesson and morals to convey. Fables are often conveyed orally by traveling Greeks to eulogies myths, legends.  Fables are fictitious and often not real. The highest collector of fables in Greek was a slave named Aesop.