''Eupolemius'' ("Good War") is a

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epic poem In poetry, an epic is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. With regard to ...

in two books written before the middle of the 12th century and no earlier than the 11th. It is the anonymous work of a German-speaking author and belongs to the genre of epic retellings of Biblical stories ( ''Bibelepik'' in German). It recounts how Jesus saved man through his resurrection. It was first published in 1564 at Basel in

Georg Fabricius Georg Fabricius (; 23 April 1516– 17 July 1571) was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist who wrote in Latin during the German Renaissance. Life Fabricius was born as Georg Goldschmidt in Chemnitz in Saxony on 23 April 151 ...

' ''Schola Antiquitatum christiano puerili''. The first book is 684

hexameter Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek as well as in Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of s ...

s and the second 779. Both make extensive use of

aptronym An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation). Gene Weingarten of ''The Washington Post'' coined the word inaptonym as an antonym for "aptonym". The word "euonym" ( eu- + -o ...

s. The character of Agatus (from Greek ''agathos'', good) is

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; Cacus (from ''kakos'', bad) is

Satan Satan, also known as the Devil, is a devilish entity in Abrahamic religions who seduces humans into sin (or falsehood). In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the '' yetzer hara'', or ' ...

; Antropus (from ''anthropos'', human) is

Adam Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). According to Christianity, Adam ...

; Solima (from ''Hierosolyma'') is

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; and Messyas is Jesus, the

Messiah In Abrahamic religions, a messiah or messias (; , ; , ; ) is a saviour or liberator of a group of people. The concepts of '' mashiach'', messianism, and of a Messianic Age originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible, in which a ''mashiach ...

(from Hebrew).

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