The main aim of this thesis was to determine the differences between the ideologeme drifts of two authors, Ivan Mažuranić and Luka Botić. At the very beginning of this thesis we defined ideologemes of various foreign and Croatian theoreticians, and during the analysis of concrete parts of this thesis we were led by the definitions of foreign theoreticians, mostly Bulgarian linguist Julie Kristeve, as well as Russian theoreticians Mikhail Bakhtin and Pavel Medvedev. After that we switched to 19th century and became acquainted with the main characteristics of both pre-National Revival as well as post-National Revival periods in which the mentioned authors created. Ivan Mažuranić wrote in the time of Croatian National Revival when the national consciousness was at its highest peak, when authors became distant from individualism, highlighting the importance of collective, faith and hope for a better tomorrow. Luka Botić, on the other hand, created in the time of post-National Revival when the tendencies altered. The importance of collective was replaced with the individualism, classic stereotypes of Turks from the previous ages were replaced with new features, with the best example of Botić’s writing “Miserable Mara”. Unlike Mažuranić, who in his epic poem “The Death of Smail-aga Ćengić” considered Turks as opponents and represented their evil in the character of a half-demonic aga, Botić detached himself from such a worldview and reckoned Turks not exclusively as enemies, but through love relationship tried to depict war between different cultures as useless. In the last chapter we gained a complete insight into the ideologemic diversity of these two authors through the most relevant figure in epic poems, the character of priest. Mažuranić’s priest in his speech highlights the importance of an independent nation and free county, where freedom is only achievable through war, because war is an honorable struggle, worth even dying for unconstrained nation and country. Botić, however, exceeds these national and political frames and advocates spiritual ones, common values, love, freedom, fraternity and religious tolerance.