User blog comment:Dark Cyan/Cyan's Rap Battles of Literature 13: Victor Hugo vs Leo Tolstoy/@comment-5412428-20150705232843/@comment-5264252-20150713184041

It's not just "people who write long epic poems". It's the BIGGEST epic writers. Both Homer and Dante are the two biggest, most influential writers of epics throughout all of history. I don't see how pitting Dante against someone equal to his level is a "piss to his face". It's a simple connection, but it works, since Homer and Dante are so equally massive.