Epic poetry
:For other meanings of epic, see epic (disambiguation).
Notable epic poems
- 20th century BC: The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian mythology)
- 19th century BC: The Ramayana (Hindu mythology)
- 1316 BC: Traditional date for the Mahabharata (Hindu mythology).
- 8th century BC:
- The Iliad by Homer (Greek mythology)
- The Odyssey by Homer (Greek mythology)
- 1st century BC:
- Aeneid by Virgil
- Táin Bó Cúailnge (Irish mythology)
- c.3rd century: Cilappatikaram, a South Indian epic written by prince Ilango Adigal
- Sometime in the period 8th to the 10th century: Beowulf (Anglo-Saxon mythology)
- 10th century:
- Shahnameh
- Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit "Stories of the Lord")
- 11th century:
- Digenis Acritas (Byzantine epic poem)
- La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)
- Epic of King Gesar (Tibetan; compiled in 11th century from earlier sources)
- 12th century: The Knight in the Panther Skin by Shota Rustaveli
- 13th century:
- Poetic Edda (Norse mythology)
- Hervarar saga (Norse mythology)
- Völsunga saga (Norse mythology)
- Nibelungenlied (Germanic mythology)
- Brut by Layamon
- c.1300: Cursor Mundi by an anonymous cleric
- early 14th century: Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri
- 1516: Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
- c.1555: Lusiadas by Luis de Camőes
- 1575 La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso
- 16th century:
- Ramacharitmanas (based on the Ramayana) by Goswami Tulsidas
- The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
- 17th century:
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Obsidio Szigetianae ("Szigeti veszedelem"; Hungarian) by Miklós Zrínyi
- 19th century:
- The Prelude by William Wordsworth
- Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
- Clarel by Herman Melville
- Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner
- Canigó by Jacint Verdaguer
- Venezuela Heroica, by Eduardo Blanco (1881)
- Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot (Finnish mythology)
- 20th century:
- Savitri by Aurobindo Ghose
- The Cantos by Ezra Pound
- ' by Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Anathemata by David Jones
- Maximus by Charles Olson
- Paterson by William Carlos Williams
- The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Epic versus narrative |
| ► | Early epics |
| ► | Oral epics or world folk epics |
| ► | Epics in literate societies |
| ► | Epic non-poetry |
| ► | Notable epic poems |
| ► | See also |
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