Possible Clues:

• Point to images and long stories
• Perhaps Web images showing the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'?
• Films with "casts of thousands"
• 'The Hunger Games' and others
• Some long stories
• Long, long stories
• "Lawrence of Arabia" and others
• They detail heroic deeds
• Long narrative poems telling of deeds of heroes
• Large scale work might provide spice