ILOILO CITY, Philippines—What happens when an age-old Panay Bukidnon epic and its then 17-year-old storyteller meets an aggressive university theater group? The answer is “Tarangban (Cave),” a ...

Students and teachers from all over the Philippines gathered at the National Museum of Natural History last week to discuss the country's 'epikong-bayan.' All photos and videos by Mark Angeles It was ...

At 200,000 verse lines and 1.8 million words, it took more than half a millennium to write the Mahabharata. The epic Sanskrit poem, spanning the tale of love and warfare between rival families, is ...

The Mahabharata is an epic Sanskrit poem three times longer than the Bible. Its authors were proud of its encyclopedic scale: A preface boasts that "what is not found here cannot be found elsewhere." ...

INTERNET giant Google on Monday celebrated the 230th birthday of Francisco “Balagtas” Baltazar with a doodle of his literary masterpiece “Florante at Laura.” An epic poem that symbolizes Baltazar’s ...

MANILA, Philippines - Filipino folklorists have lauded Hinilawod as representing our own traditions of poetry long before the coming of the Spaniards. As one writer puts it, “Epic poems and songs ...