A literary work, especially a poem, written in the style of ancient heroic epics but often imitating or parodying them.
From hero plus -oid (from Greek -oeides meaning resembling), creating a word for something that looks or acts like a hero-poem.
Heroid is a rare term used by scholars to describe mock-epics and parodies that deliberately ape the style of the Odyssey or Aeneid—literature's way of making fun of literature.
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