The Enuma Elish
The Enuma Elish is a Babylonian epic consisting of seven clay tablets that recount the cosmogony (the creation of the universe) and the theogony (the…
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The Epic of Manas
The Epic of Manas is the national epic of the Kyrgyz Turks and is recognized as one of the largest oral literary works in the…
The Eyes of Çandarlı Halil Pasha
The conquest of Istanbul did not only open the gates of a city; it also closed a century-long era in Ottoman administration. Çandarlı Halil Pasha…
The Female Pope: The Legend of Pope Joan
This is the story of a massive “leak” opened by a woman’s intellect and camouflage in the heart of the Vatican—one of history’s greatest male-dominated…
The Great Emu War
Before World War I, Australia was a nation primarily reliant on agriculture, and many soldiers returning from the war resumed their lives as farmers. However,…
the Iliad and the Odyssey
The epic narratives of the Iliad and the Odyssey, considered the unshakable foundations of Western literature, are a massive body of epics reaching us from…
The Incident of the Vakvak
One of the bloodiest and most tragic pages of Ottoman history, the Vaka-i Vakvakiye—also known as the Incident of the Plane Tree—was a massive military…
The Kalevala
The Kalevala is the national epic of Finland, compiled in the 19th century by the physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot from oral folk verses (runes)…
The Kettle War
The year was 1784. The cards in Europe had been reshuffled. With the “Diplomatic Revolution” of 1756, Austria and France had become allies, while the…
The Migration
The Epic of Migration is a sorrowful narrative belonging to the Uyghur Turks and serves as a sequel to the Epic of Creation. It recounts…