Related Clues:

• Long poems about great events
• "The Lord of the Rings" and the like
• Major stories
• Heroic works
• Tales of heroes
• DeMille specialties
• Perhaps Web images showing the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'?
• Stories that may be written down — or up
• Dramatic, detailed tales
• Homeric works
• They may span decades
• Works inspired by Calliope, e.g
• Books that require a commitment
• Sword-and-sandal flicks
• 'War and Peace' and others