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Literary cycle

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A literary cycle is a group of stories focused on common figures, often (though not necessarily) based on mythical figures or loosely on historical ones. Cycles which deal with an entire country are sometimes referred to as matters. A fictional cycle is often referred to as a mythos.

Examples from folk and classical literature

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Western Europe

The three great western cycles

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France

Britain

Germany

Ireland

Africa

Asia

Japan

India

  • The Mahabharata, the world's longest epic poem, many of whose stories deal with the lives of Indian mythological characters, most notably Krishna

Middle East

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