Mythic vs Epic - What's the difference?
mythic | epic |
Larger-than-life.
* 1998 , Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations , page 88:
* 2007 , James Daniel Hardy, Baseball and the mythic moment: how we remember the national game , page 63:
* 2008 , Peter Schmidt, Sitting in darkness: New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow , page 156:
* 2010 , Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society , page 161:
Mythical; existing in myth.
* 2005 , Gerhard Hoffmann, From modernism to postmodernism: concepts and strategies , page 294:
* 2008 , Laurence Jay Silberstein, Postzionism: a reader , page 351:
(computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
(electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
(electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
(legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
As adjectives the difference between mythic and epic
is that mythic is larger-than-life while epic is of, or relating to, an epic.As an initialism EPIC is
explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.As a noun epic is
an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero.mythic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.
- Had Pesky nailed Enos Slaughter in the 1946 Series, his throw home would have become a mythic moment.
- The Wyoming territories become a mythic space where character is tested and revealed and Good battles Evil.
- By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.
- Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic' hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for ' mythic heroes.
- The ways in which Eastern Europe has become a mythic part of the Jewish past and not an imagined mythic home in the future is central to understanding how American Jews see themselves at home in America.