Possible Clues:

• Major works
• "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," for two
• Spice up with adventurous poems or stories
• DeMille flicks, often
• ''The Iliad'' and ''The Odyssey,'' e.g.
• Big-scope books
• Far-from-short stories
• "Cleopatra" and others
• Long yarns
• The ultimate in large-scale films