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A Russian epic poem about the rise and fall of a 12th-century prince
Mikhail Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time
French epic poem about a Christian king fighting Muslims in Spain
Unknown - The Song of Roland
A blind poet's story of a war with gods and men in ancient times
John Milton - Paradise Lost
The tale of the hero Beowulf and his battles against monsters
Unknown - Beowulf
Dutch epic recasting the early voyages of explorers into mythical form
Joost van den Vondel - Lucifer
An Old English epic poem describing the heroic acts of a Scandinavian prince
Unknown - Widsith
A Finnish national epic compiled from oral folklore and mythology
Elias Lönnrot - Kalevala
The long journey of a Greek hero after the fall of Troy
Homer - The Odyssey
A poem recounting the history and myth of the founding of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth - Historia Regum Britanniae
A grand English epic, capturing the deeds of a British king
Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene
An epic tale from Mesopotamian literature, one of the earliest known works
Unknown - Epic of Gilgamesh
The wrath of Achilles during the Trojan War
Homer - The Iliad
An epic poem including the Aeneas's search for a new home
Virgil - The Aeneid
A divine comedy that explores the realms of the afterlife
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
An Indian epic poem based on the life and teachings of a prince
Vyasa - Mahabharata
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