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Reddit mentions of The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
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Epics are pretty various. Other than Homer** & maybe Beowulf, they tend to be long, public, political poems. Both the Aeneid and the Inferno fall into this category. So do the long romances of the French, Italian renaissance (Chanson de Roland, Gerusalemme Liberata etc). But that's about the extent of their 'definition'.
Epics are not always serious: Pulci's Morgante Maggiore, for example, is a sometimes rabelaisian comedy with a strong social/political view. Indeed, the greatest comic poem in English (Lord Bryon's "Don Juan") is a self-styled 'epic' of 16 books (unfinished when Byron died) with a hero (Juan) who doesn't matter much and a distinct politica/soclal agenda.
Realism? Not necessary. In Don Juan, the hero is fictive from the start because the real subject of the poem is Byron himself. That's sort of true of Morgante, too. It's a poem about a fictional hero of Romance (Roland) and his fictional squire, the giant Morgante. No one is supposed to take either character too seriously.
As to subject matter: it's what you please, although at epic length you need variety. Modern epics don't need to be about battles and feasts and voyages and games and harrowings-of-hell (the events of the classical epics). Byron makes endless jokes about this, although he does put Juan through a few episodes (shipwreck, cannibalism, the Russian siege of Ismail, harems, empress' bedrooms, english fox-hunts etc) that mock the conventions.
If you'd like to know more about Bryon's "Don Juan", you'll find several articles and stuff you can download -- including annotated and narrated excepts -- at https://madbaddangerous.com
** PS: You could also argue that Hopmer's Illiad, far from being merely an heroic tale, has a social/political agenda. Caroline Alexander makes a great case that it is fundamentally a poem about good governance and the futility of war in her book "The War that Killed Achilles" (https://www.amazon.com/War-That-Killed-Achilles-Homers/dp/0143118269)