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Ancient epics (to AD 500)
Before the 8th century BCEpic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian religion) • Epic of Lugalbanda (including Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave and Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird, Mesopotamian religion) • Epic of Enmerkar (including Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta and Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Mesopotamian religion) • Atrahasis (Mesopotamian religion) • Enuma Elish (Babylonian religion) • The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld (Mesopotamian religion) • Legend of Keret (Ugaritic religion) 8th to 6th centuries BCIliad, ascribed to Homer (Greek mythology) • Odyssey, ascribed to Homer (Greek mythology) • Works and Days, composed by Hesiod (Greek mythology) • Theogony, composed by Hesiod (Greek mythology) • Shield of Heracles, ascribed to Hesiod (Greek mythology) • Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod (Greek mythology; only fragments survive) • Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliupersis, Nostoi and Telegony, forming the so-called Epic Cycle (only fragments survive) • Oedipodea, Thebaid, Epigoni and Alcmeonis, forming the so-called Theban Cycle (only fragments survive) • A series of poems ascribed to Hesiod during antiquity (of which only fragments survive): Aegimius (alternatively ascribed to Cercops of Miletus), Astronomia, Descent of Perithous, Idaean Dactyls (almost completely lost), Megala Erga, Megalai Ehoiai, Melampodia and Wedding of CeyxCapture of Oechalia, ascribed to Homer or Creophylus of Samos during antiquity (only a fragment survives) • Phocais, ascribed to Homer during antiquity (only a fragment survives) • Titanomachy ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth (only a fragment survives) • Danais (written by one of the cyclic poets and from which the Danaid tetralogy of Aeschylus draws its material), Minyas and Naupactia (almost completely lost) 5th to 4th centuries BCHeracleia, tells of the labors of Heracles, almost completely lost, written by Panyassis (Greek mythology) • Mahābhārata, ascribed to Veda Vyasa (Indian religion) • Ramayana, ascribed to Valmiki (Indian religion) 3rd century BCArgonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes (Greek mythology) • Batrachomyomachia, ascribed to Homer in antiquity (Parodic epic) 2nd century BCAnnales by Ennius (Roman history; only fragments survive) 1st century BCDe rerum natura by Lucretius (natural philosophy) • Georgics by Virgil (didactic poem) • Aeneid by Virgil (Roman religion) 1st century ADMetamorphoses by Ovid (Greek and Roman mythology) • Pharsalia by Lucan (Roman history; unfinished) • Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus (Roman poet, Greek mythology; incomplete) • Punica by Silius Italicus (Roman history) • Thebaid and Achilleid by Statius (Roman poet, Greek mythology; latter poem incomplete) 2nd centuryBuddhacarita by Aśvaghoṣa (Indian epic poetry) • Halieutica by Oppian (Greek didactic on fishing) 3rd to 4th centuriesPosthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna (Greek mythology) • The Sack of Troy by Triphiodorus (Greek mythology) • The Vision of Dorotheus by Dorotheus (Christian Epic) • Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi by Faltonia Betitia Proba 4th centuryKumārasambhava by Kālidāsa (Indian epic poetry) • Raghuvaṃśa by Kālidāsa (Indian epic poetry) • Blemyomachia (Greek, only fragments survive) • De raptu Proserpinae by Claudian (Roman poet, Greek mythology; incomplete) • Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor by Juvencus (Gospel Epic) • Gigantomachy by Claudian (Greek Mythology; incomplete) • Orphic Argonautica, ascribed to Orpheus (Greek mythology) 5th centuryArgonautica Orphica by Anonymous (Greek mythology) • Carmen Paschale by Sedulius (Gospel Epic) • Paraphrasis Evangelii Sancti Ionhannis by Nonnus (Biblical Paraphrase) • Dionysiaca by Nonnus (Greek mythology) • Mahavamsa first composed by Mahānāma (Pali epic) • Psychomachia by Prudentius (Christian allegory) • Yadegar-e Zariran (Zoroastrian Middle Persian epic) • Cilappatikāram by Iḷaṅkō Aṭikaḷ (Tamil epic) • Manimekalai by Kulavāṇikaṉ Seethalai Sataṉar (Tamil buddhist epic) ==Medieval epics (500–1500)==
Medieval epics (500–1500)
6th centuryDe Actibus Apostolorum by Arator, epic retelling of the Acts of the ApostlesIohannis by Corippus, Latin epic on the Byzantine conquest of North AfricaThe Abduction of Helen by Colluthus, Greek mythology • Kar-Namag i Ardashir i Pabagan, This epic narrates the story of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sassanid dynasty, written in Middle PersianVita Sancti Martini by Venantius Fortunatus, on the life of St Martin of Tours 7th centuryTáin Bó Cúailnge (Old Irish) • Bhaṭṭikāvya, Sanskrit courtly epic based on the Rāmāyaṇa and the Aṣṭādhyāyī of PāṇiniKiratarjuniya by Bharavi, Sanskrit epic based on an episode in the MahabharataShishupala Vadha by Magha, Sanskrit epic based on another episode in the Mahabharata 8th to 10th centuriesBeowulf (Old English) • Waldere, Old English version of the story told in Waltharius (below), known only as a brief fragment • Alpamysh, a Turkic epic • Karolus magnus et Leo papa (Carolingian, Latin, before 814) • Daredevils of Sassoun (Armenian) • Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit) "Stories of the Lord", based on earlier sources • Lay of Hildebrand and Muspilli (Old High German, ) • Kakawin Ramayana, Javanese version of the Ramayana (c. 870) • Shahnameh (Persian literature; details Persian legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the Sassanid Empire, by Ferdowsi) • Waltharius by Ekkehard of St. Gall (Germany, Latin); about Walter of AquitainePoetic Edda (no particular authorship; oral tradition of the North Germanic peoples) • Vikramarjuna Vijaya and Ādi purāṇa (c. 941), Kannada poems by Adikavi PampaAjitha Purana and Gadaayuddha (c.993 and c.999), Kannada poems by RannaNeelakesi (Tamil Jain epic) • Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi by Tiruttakkatēvar (Tamil epic) • Valayapathi by Kamil Zvelebil (Tamil jain epic; almost entirely lost) • Kundalakēci by Nathakuthanaar (Tamil buddhist epic; fragments survive) 11th century by Shota Rustaveli, one of the greatest Georgian poets. • Taghribat Bani Hilal (Arabic); see also Arabic epic literatureAndhra Mahabharatam (Telugu) by NannayyaRuodlieb (Latin), by a German author • Digenis Akritas (Greek); about a hero of the Byzantine EmpireEpic of King Gesar (Tibetan) • Garshaspname (Persian) by Asadi Tusi (1066) • Carmen Campidoctoris, the first poem about El Cid (c. 1083) • Song of Armouris (Byzantine, acritic song) • Borzu Nama, ascribed to 'Amid Abu'l 'Ala' 'Ata b. Yaqub Kateb Razi (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style related to the "Shahnameh") • Faramarz Nama (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style related to the "Shahnameh") • Mushika-vamsha (Sanskrit) by AtulaThe Song of Roland (Old French) 12th centuryKhamba Thoibi (Manipuri Epic by Hijam Anganghal) • Acallam na Senórach (Middle Irish) • Historia Regum Britanniae (Latin) • ''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' (Georgian) by Shota RustaveliAlexandreis by Walter of Châtillon (Latin) • De bello Troiano and the lost Antiocheis (Latin) by Joseph of ExeterCarmen de Prodicione Guenonis, version of the story of the Song of Roland in LatinArchitrenius by John of Hauville, (Latin satire) • Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli, narrative of the conquest of Sicily by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (Latin) • ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign and Bylinas'' (Old east Slavic) (11th–19th centuries) • Gita Govinda (Sanskrit) by JayadevaNaishadha Charita (Sanskrit) by SriharshaParishishtaparvan (Sanskrit) by HemachandraPrithviraja Vijaya (Sanskrit) by Jayanaka (1191–1192) • Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (Old French) • Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou by Wace (Old French) • Poem of Almería (Latin) • Eupolemius (Latin) by an anonymous German-speaking author • Bahman Nama and Kush Nama (Persian) ascribed to Hakim Īrānšāh b. Abi'l Khayr • Banu Goshasp Nama (Persian) • Ramavataram (Tamil) by Kambar, based on the "Ramayana" • Cycle of the First Crusade (Old French) by Graindor de Douai and others 13th centuryNibelungenlied (Middle High German) • Kudrun (Middle High German) • Daniel von dem blühenden Tal (Middle High German) • Brut by Layamon (Early Middle English) • Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise ("Song of the Albigensian Crusade"; Old Occitan) • Antar (Arabic); see also Arabic epic literatureSirat al-Zahir Baibars (Arabic); see also Arabic epic literature • ''Osman's Dream'' (Ottoman Turkish) • Epic of Sundiata (Malinke People) • El Cantar de Mio Cid, Spanish epic of the Reconquista (Old Spanish) • De triumphis ecclesiae by Johannes de Garlandia (Latin) • Gesta Regum Britanniae by William of Rennes (Latin) • Van den vos Reynaerde (Middle Dutch) • Poema de Fernán González, cantar de gesta by a monk of San Pedro de Arlanza; 1250–1266 (Old Spanish) • Jewang ungi by Yi Seung-hyu ("Rhymed Chronicles of Sovereigns"; 1287 Korea) • Basava purana by Palkuriki Somanatha (Telugu) • Jahangirnama by Qasim Madih Harawi (largely an imitation of the Borzu Nama) 14th century Alliterative Morte Arthure (Middle English)(c. 1375–1400) • Divine Comedy (Christian mythology) by Dante AlighieriCursor Mundi (Middle English) by an anonymous cleric (c. 1300) • Africa by Petrarch (Latin) • The Tale of the Heike, Japanese epic war tale • The Brus by John Barbour (Scots) • La Spagna (Italian) attributed to Sostegno di Zanobi (c. 1350–1360) • Mocedades de Rodrigo (Old Spanish) (c. 1360) • Siege of Jerusalem (c. 1370–1380, Middle English) • Troilus and Criseyde (Middle English) by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1380) • Mabinogi (Middle Welsh) • Zafarnamah (Persian) by Hamdollah Mostowfi 15th centuryHammira Mahakavya by Nayachandra Suri (Sanskrit) • The Fall of the Princes by John Lydgate (1431–1438) • Yuan Phai () by Royal Poets of King Borommatrai-lokkanat (c. 1475) • Mahachat Kham luang () a Siamese retelling of Vessantara Jataka by Royal Poets of King Borommatrai-lokkanat (1492) • Orlando innamorato (Italian) by Matteo Maria Boiardo (1495) • Shmuel-Bukh (Old Yiddish chivalry romance based on the Biblical book of Samuel) • Mlokhim-Bukh (Old Yiddish epic poem based on the Biblical Books of Kings) • Book of Dede Korkut (Oghuz Turks) • ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' (Middle English) • Morgante (Italian) by Luigi Pulci (1485), with elements typical of the mock-heroic genre • The Wallace by Blind Harry (Scots chivalric poem) • Troy Book by John Lydgate, about the Trojan war (Middle English) • Heldenbuch (Middle High German) a group of manuscripts and prints of the 15th and 16th centuries, typically including material from the Theodoric cycle and the cycle of Hugdietrich, Wolfdietrich and OrtnitIbong Adarna (Filipino) whose real author is not known ==Modern epics (from 1500)==
Modern epics (from 1500)
16th centuryLilit Phra Lo () by King Ramathibodi II (–1529) • Judita (Croatian) by Marko Marulić (1501) • Shahenshah Nameh and Khamsa (including Timurnameh) by Hatefi, Poetic Epics One about exploits of Shah Ismail I and the other about Timur (1510) • Ismailnameh an epic poem on shah Ismail I heroic deeds by Qsimi Qunabadi nephew of Hatifi (1513) • Orlando Furioso (Italian) by Ludovico Ariosto (1516) • Theuerdank and Weisskunig (Weisskunig was not published until 1775) by Maximilian I and Marx Treitzsaurwein, often considered the last medieval epics. • Davidiad (Latin) by Marko Marulić (1517) • Christiad (Latin) by Marco Girolamo Vida (1535) • Padmavat (Hindustani) by Malik Muhammad Jayasi (1540) • Süleymanname by Arifi çelebi (1558) • Sang Sinxay, the most famous epic poem of Laos, was written around mid sixteenth century. • Franciade (French) by Pierre de Ronsard (1540s–1572) • Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões () • ''L'Amadigi'' by Bernardo Tasso (1560) • La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1569–1589) • La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso (1575) • Ramacharitamanasa (based on the Ramayana) by Goswami Tulsidas (1577) • The Faerie Queene (Early Modern English) by Edmund Spenser (1596) • Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594) (Early Modern English) by Shakespeare • The Dam San of the Ede people (now in Vietnam) is often considered to have appeared in the 16th or 17th century. 17th centuryLa Argentina by Martín del Barco Centenera (1602) • La Cleopatra by Girolamo Graziani (1632) • Biag ni Lam-ang by Pedro Bucaneg (1640) • Il Conquisto di Granata by Girolamo Graziani (1650) • Exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies by Anne Bradstreet (1650) • Szigeti veszedelem, also known under the Latin title Obsidionis Szigetianae, a Hungarian epic by Miklós Zrínyi (1651) • Gondibert by William Davenant (1651) • Paradise Lost (1667) (English) and Paradise Regained (1671) by John MiltonKhun Chang Khun Phaen (), a Thai epic poem by anonymous folk poets (–1700) 18th centuryKumulipo by Keaulumoku (1700), an Ancient Hawaiian cosmogonic genealogy first published in 1889 • Henriade by Voltaire (1723) • Utendi wa Tambuka by Bwana Mwengo (1728) • Der Messias by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1748–1773) • ''La Pucelle d'Orléans'' by Voltaire (1756) • Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson (1760–1765) • The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis (1765–1775) • O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama (1769) • Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773) • O Desertor das Letras by Silva Alvarenga (1774), a short mock-heroic epicCaramuru by Santa Rita Durão (1781) • Joan of Arc by Robert Southey (1796) • Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1797) 19th centuryThe Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du (c. 1800) • Thalaba the Destroyer by Robert Southey (1801) • Madoc by Robert Southey (1805) • Psyche by Mary Tighe (1805) • The Columbiad by Joel Barlow (1807) • Milton: A Poem by William Blake (1804–1810) • Marmion by Walter Scott (1808) • Alipashiad by Haxhi Shehreti (before 1817) • ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' by Lord Byron, narrating the travels of Childe Harold (1812–1818) • Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1813) • Roderick the Last of the Goths by Robert Southey (1814) • The Lord of the Isles by Walter Scott (1813) • Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1815) • The Revolt of Islam (Laon and Cyntha) by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817) • Harold the Dauntless by Walter Scott (1817) • Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora, forged epic published in 1818 • Endymion (1818) by John KeatsHyperion (1818) and The Fall of Hyperion (1819) by John KeatsThe Battle of Marathon by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1820) • Phra Aphai Mani by Sunthorn Phu (1821 or 1822–1844) • Camões by Almeida Garrett (1825), narrating the last years and deeds of Luís de CamõesDona Branca by Almeida Garrett (1826), the fantastic tale of the forbidden love between Portuguese princess Branca and Moorish king Aben-Afan • Tamerlane by Edgar Allan Poe (1827) • The Free Besieged by Dionysios Solomos (1828–1851) • The Fall of Nineveh by Edwin Atherstone (1828–1868) • Creation, Man and the Messiah by Henrik Wergeland (1829) • The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin (1833) • ''Messiah's Kingdom'' by Agnes Bulmer (1833) • Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz (1834) • The Baptism on the Savica (Krst pri Savici) by France Prešeren (1836) • Florante at Laura, an awit by Francisco Balagtas (1838) • Haidamaky by Taras Shevchenko (1841) • King Alfred by John Fitchett (completed by Robert Roscoe and published in 1841–1842) • Horatius by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1842) • ''Germany. A Winter's Tale'' by Heinrich Heine (1843), a "mock" epic • János Vitéz by Sándor Petőfi (1845) • Smrt Smail-age Čengića by Ivan Mažuranić (1846) • Toldi (1846), Toldi szerelme ("''Toldi's Love", 1879) and Toldi estéje ("Toldi's Night''", 1848) by János Arany, forming the so-called "Toldi trilogy" • Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847) • The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1847) • The Tales of Ensign Stål by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (first part published in 1848, second part published in 1860) • Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot (1849; Finnish mythology) • I-Juca-Pirama (1851) by Gonçalves DiasKalevipoeg by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1853; Estonian mythology) • The Prelude by William WordsworthSong of Myself by Walt Whitman (1855) • The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855) • A Confederação dos Tamoios by Gonçalves de Magalhães (1856) • The Saga of King Olaf by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856–1863) • Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857) • Os Timbiras by Gonçalves Dias (1857) • Meghnad Badh Kavya by Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1861) • Terje Vigen by Henrik Ibsen (1862) • La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) by Victor Hugo (1859–1877) • The Earthly Paradise by William Morris (1868–1870) • Ibonia, oral epic of Madagascar (first transcription: 1870) • Martín Fierro by José Hernández (1872) • Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson (c. 1874) • Clarel by Herman Melville (1876) • The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1876) • ''L'Atlàntida'' by Jacint Verdaguer (1877) • The Light of Asia by Edwin Arnold (1879) • The City of Dreadful Night by Bysshe Vanolis (finished in 1874, published in 1880) • Tristram of Lyonesse by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1882) • The Rape of Florida by Albery Allson Whitman (1884 later republished as ''Twasinta's Seminoles'') • Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridges (1885) • La Fin de Satan by Victor Hugo (written between 1855 and 1860, published in 1886) • Canigó by Jacint Verdaguer (1886) • Lāčplēsis ('The Bear-Slayer') by Andrejs Pumpurs (1888; Latvian Mythology) • Tabaré by Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1888; national epic of Uruguay) • The Wanderings of Oisin by William Butler Yeats (1889) • Kotan Utunnai, Ainu epic, recorded in the 1880s, published in 1890 • Host and Guest by Vazha-Pshavela (1893) • The 9th of July 1821 by Vasilis Michaelides (1893–1895; national epic of Cyprus written in Cypriot Greek) • The Tale of Balen by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1896) • Lục Vân Tiên by Nguyễn Đình ChiểuAmir Arsalan, narrated by Mohammad Ali Naqib al-Mamalek to the Qajar Shah of Persia 20th centuryThe Divine Enchantment by John Neihardt (1900) • An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts by Albery Allson Whitman (1901) • Lahuta e Malcís by Gjergj Fishta (composed 1902–1937) • Ural-batyr (Bashkirs oral tradition set in the written form by Mukhamedsha Burangulov in 1910) • The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton (1911) • Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa (composed 1913–1934) • The Cantos by Ezra Pound (composed 1915–1969) • Dorvyzhy, Udmurt national epic compiled in Russian by Mikhail Khudiakov (1920) basing on folklore works • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by J. R. R. Tolkien (composed 1920–1939, published 2009) • A Cycle of the West by John Neihardt (composed 1921–1949) • The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek verse, composed 1924–1938) • Dymer by C. S. Lewis (1926) • "A" by Louis Zukofsky (composed 1927–1978) • ''John Brown's Body'' by Stephen Vincent Benét (1928) • The Fall of Arthur by J. R. R. Tolkien (composed –1934, published 2013) • The Bridge by Hart Crane (1930) • Ariadne by F. L. Lucas (1932) • Kamayani by Jaishankar Prasad (1936) • The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg (1936) • In Parenthesis by David Jones (1937) • Canto General by Pablo Neruda (1938–1950) • Khamba Thoibi Sheireng (based on Khamba and Thoibi) by Hijam Anganghal (1940) • Paterson by William Carlos Williams (composed –1961) • Sugata Saurabha by Chittadhar Hridaya (1941–1945) • Victory for the Slain by Hugh John Lofting (1942) • The Great South Land: An Epic Poem (1951) by Rex IngamellsRashmirathi (1952), Hunkar by Ramdhari Singh DinkarSavitri by Aurobindo Ghose (1950) • The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson (composed 1950–1970) • The Anathemata by David Jones (1952) • Howl by Allen Ginsberg (composed 1954–1955) • Aniara by Harry Martinson (composed 1956) • Helen in Egypt by H.D. (1961) • Song of Lawino by Okot p'Bitek (1966) • Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pietri (1971) • Prussian Nights by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1974) • The Banner of Joan by H. Warner Munn (1975) • Kristubhagavatam by P. C. Devassia (1976) • Keralodayam Mahakavyam by K. N. Ezhuthachan (1977) • The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill (composed 1976–1982) • The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford (published 1977) • Emperor Shaka the Great by Mazisi Kunene (1979) • The Lay of the Children of Húrin and The Lay of Leithian by J. R. R. Tolkien (published 1985) • The New World by Frederick Turner (1985) • Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi (1988) • Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990) • Genesis by Frederick Turner (1990) • Arundhati by Jagadguru Rambhadracharya (1994) • Mastorava by A. M. Sharonov (1994) • Astronautilía Hvězdoplavba by Jan Křesadlo (1995) • The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley (1996) • The Alamo: An Epic by Michael Lind (1997) • Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (1998) • Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray (1998) 21st centurySribhargavaraghaviyam (2002), Ashtavakra (2009) and Gitaramayanam (2009–2010, published in 2011) by Jagadguru RambhadracharyaSolaris korrigert by Øyvind Rimbereid (2004) • Lime Stone: An Epic Poem of Barbados (2008) by Anthony KellmanZorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston (2008) • The Iovis Trilogy by Anne Waldman (2011) • Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall (2012) • Brand New Ancients by Kae Tempest (2013) • Apocalypse by Frederick Turner (2016) • Vrata nepovrata by Boris A. Novak (2014-2017) • Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga by Dave Jilk (2024) • Epoch: 1517. Michelle and Diana by Stanislav Chernyshevich (2025) == Other epics ==
Other epics
Canaäd, an epic poem reconstructing Canaanite mythology, set during the Late Bronze Age. • Epic of Bamana Segu, oral epic of the Bambara people, composed in the 19th century and recorded in the 20th century • Epic of Darkness, tales and legends of primeval China • Epic of Jangar, poem of the Oirat peopleEpic of Köroğlu, Turkic oral tradition written down mostly in 18th century • Epic of Manas (18th century) • Epic of the Forgotten, Bulgarian poetic saga • Gesta Berengarii imperatorisHeavensfield, alliterative epic on the life of medieval king Oswald of Northumbria. • Hikayat Seri Rama, Malay version of the Ramayana • Hinilawod, Filipino epic from the island of PanayHotsuma TsutaeKhun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai poem • Klei Khan Y Dam San, a Vietnamese poem • Koti and Chennayya and Epic of Siri, Tulu poems • Kutune Shirka, sacred yukar epic of the Ainu people of which several translations exist • Lay of Mouse-fate (Musurdvitha), a fantasy epic inspired by animal fable and Arthurian legend. • ''Mu'allaqat'', Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn ShaddadParsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) • Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular • Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people • Ramakien, Thailand's national epic derived from the RamayanaDer Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1848–1874) • Siribhoovalaya, a unique work of multi-lingual literature written by Kumudendu Muni, a Jain monk • Yadegar-e Zariran (Middle Persian) • Yama Zatdaw, Burmese version of the Ramayana ==See also==
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