epic battle
Legendary large-scale fight
An epic battle is a conflict of grand scale or dramatic intensity.
The phrase often describes decisive military engagements in history or fiction: the epic battle of Thermopylae, the epic battle between good and evil.
In casual use, epic battle applies to any prolonged or memorable struggle: My morning commute was an epic battle with traffic.
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- good vs evilCore ethical dichotomy
- GettysburgPennsylvania battle site
- MahabharataSanskrit war epic
- RagnarokNorse end of days
Hastings · Waterloo · Stalingrad · no man's land · Thermopylae · Agincourt · Marathon · Verdun · Trojan War · clash of titans · carnage · triumph · Trafalgar · showdown · Yorktown · final showdown · crusade · D-Day
- fantasy adventuredragon, dragons, wizard, wizards, magic
- epicIliad, Odyssey, Beowulf, Aeneid, Gilgamesh
- fantasy tropesdragon, dragons, elf, elves, dwarf
- epic poetryIliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Paradise Lost, Beowulf
- heroic epicsBeowulf, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Gilgamesh
- Trojan WarTroy, Achilles, Hector, Helen, Odysseus
epic battlepeaceful coexistence
Non-hostile international relations
friendly competition · harmony · reconciliation · détente · armistice
epic battlepeaceful resolution
Conflict ended without violence
diplomatic settlement · truce · compromise · reconciliation · mediation