6th century •
De Actibus Apostolorum by
Arator, epic retelling of the
Acts of the Apostles •
Iohannis by
Corippus,
Latin epic on the
Byzantine conquest of North Africa •
The 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 Persian •
Vita Sancti Martini by
Venantius Fortunatus, on the life of
St Martin of Tours 7th century •
Táin Bó Cúailnge (
Old Irish) •
Bhaṭṭikāvya, Sanskrit courtly epic based on the
Rāmāyaṇa and the
Aṣṭādhyāyī of
Pāṇini •
Kiratarjuniya by
Bharavi, Sanskrit epic based on an episode in the
Mahabharata •
Shishupala Vadha by
Magha, Sanskrit epic based on another episode in the
Mahabharata 8th to 10th centuries •
Beowulf (
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 Aquitaine •
Poetic Edda (no particular authorship; oral tradition of the
North Germanic peoples) •
Vikramarjuna Vijaya and
Ādi purāṇa (c. 941),
Kannada poems by
Adikavi Pampa •
Ajitha Purana and
Gadaayuddha (c.993 and c.999), Kannada poems by
Ranna •
Neelakesi (
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 literature •
Andhra Mahabharatam (
Telugu) by
Nannayya •
Ruodlieb (
Latin), by a German author •
Digenis Akritas (
Greek); about a hero of the
Byzantine Empire •
Epic 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
Atula •
The Song of Roland (
Old French)
12th century •
Khamba 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 Rustaveli •
Alexandreis by
Walter of Châtillon (
Latin) •
De bello Troiano and the lost
Antiocheis (Latin) by
Joseph of Exeter •
Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis, version of the story of the
Song of Roland in
Latin •
Architrenius 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
Jayadeva •
Naishadha Charita (Sanskrit) by
Sriharsha •
Parishishtaparvan (Sanskrit) by
Hemachandra •
Prithviraja 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 century •
Nibelungenlied (
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 literature •
Sirat 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 Alighieri •
Cursor 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 century •
Hammira 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
Ortnit •
Ibong Adarna (Filipino) whose real author is not known ==Modern epics (from 1500)==