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1st century BC:
Aeneid by Virgil (Roman mythology)
941),
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9th century
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Bahman Nama and Kush Nama, ascribed to Hakim
rnh b. Abi'l Khayr
Banu Goshasp Nama
Ramavataram by Kambar, based on the Ramayana
Ramachandracharitapurana and Mallinathapurana
(c. 1105), Kannada poem by Nagachandra (Jain
version of Ramayana)[5]
Girijakalyana (c.1160), Kannada poem Harihara
Oranyan, a part of the Yoruba corpus of divine traditions. It is commonly considered to be a continuation of the story of Oduduwa, the protagonists father.
12th century
purana
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14th century
15th century
Morgante by Luigi Pulci (1485), with elements typical of the mock-heroic genre
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Mikhail
Matveyevich
Vishnupurana (c.1671),
Chikkaupadhyaya[11]
Kannada
Jaiminibharata (c.1700),
Lakshmisha
Kannada poem by
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poem
by
18th century
Ramabhyudaya-Kathakusumamanjari
(or
Ananda Ramayana), a Kannada poem by
Timmamatya[14][15]
Saundara Kavya, Kannada poem by Nuronda[14]
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The Curse of Kehama by Robert Southey (1810)
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage by Lord Byron, narrating
the travels of Childe Harold (1812-1818)[16]
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)
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Paterson by William Carlos Williams (composed
c.1940-1961)
Sugata Saurabha by Chittadhar Hridaya (19411945)
Victory for the Slain by Hugh John Lofting (1942)
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20th century
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek verse, composed 1924-1938)
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21st century
REFERENCES
4 See also
Alpamysh
Chanson de geste
Duma (Ukrainian epic)
Epic Fantasy
Epic Film
Other epics
Gesta Berengarii imperatoris
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 people
Epic of Krolu, Turkic oral tradition written down
mostly in 18th century
Hinilawod, a Panay epic
Khun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai poem
Koti and Chennayya and Epic of Siri, Tulu poems
Kutune Shirka, sacred yukar epic of the Ainu people
of which several translations exist
Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed
1880-1882)
National epic
Rimur
Serbian epic poetry
Yukar (Ainu epic)
List of world folk-epics
5 References
[1] Epic Online Etymology Dictionary
[2] Michael Meyer, The Bedford Introduction to Literature
(Bedford: St. Martins, 2005), 2128. ISBN 0-312-412428.
[3] Taken from William Harmon and C. Hugh Holman, A
Handbook to Literature, 8th ed., Prentice Hall, 1999.
[4] According to that article, world folk epics are those that
are not just literary masterpieces, but also an integral part
of the world view of a people, originally oral, later written
down by one or several authors.
[5] Sastri, K.A. Nilakanta; p.357, A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar,
1955, 2002, Indian Branch, Oxford University Press, New
Delhi, ISBN 0-19-560686-8
[7] Sastri, K.A. Nilakanta; p.360, A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar,
1955, 2002, Indian Branch, Oxford University Press, New
Delhi, ISBN 0-19-560686-8
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Jan de Vries: Heroic Song and Heroic Legend ISBN
0-405-10566-5.
Hashmi, Alamgir (2011). Eponymous criture
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Dublin Quarterly, 15.
Cornel Heinsdor: Christus, Nikodemus und die
Samaritanerin bei Juvencus. Mit einem Anhang zur
lateinischen Evangelienvorlage, Untersuchungen zur
antiken Literatur und Geschichte 67, Berlin/New
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Fallon, Oliver. Bhattis Poem: The Death of Rvana
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