Hey Veeky Forums. After reading the Illiad and the Odyssey, I realized they were the best books I've ever read. I loved reading these epic poems.
So now I've stopped and thought about how many epic poems I have left to read, and there aren't many. This is the list I've composed (in no particular order):
Divine Comedy Paradise Lost Os Lusíadas (Camões) Aeneid Metamorphosis
I don't know any other epics. And either way, I'll probably finish reading them all in a couple of years. I don't know how to live without other epic poems. Is the only thing I could do is to re-read them?
If you know other epics, please let me know about them.
>Orlando Furioso >Song of Roland >Don Juan (Byron) >Pharsalia >Jerusalem Delivered >Nibelungenlied >Gilgamesh >Works and Days + Theogony >De Rerum Natura >La Légende des Siècles >The Faerie Queene
Plus the others mentioned here and you're good.
Ayden Rivera
Pharsalia and the Thebiad by Lucan and Statius.
Wyatt Turner
If you accept prose, the Lancelot-Grail is essential as well.
My extra hipster's choice would be the Epic of Manas, a massive poem of 500,000 lines that's still being sung today by bards in Kyrgyzstan.
David Taylor
Well, I honestly had no idea there were so many epics left to read. Thank you very much, Veeky Forumszens!
William Cook
stupid question:
why are the iliad and odyssey considered poems? I cant tell if theres any meter or rhyming or anything, and I've read some of the fagles and lattimore translations, two of the most recommended here. someone explain please
Xavier Lewis
If you read them translated you haven't even read them yet
Nathan Clark
Canto General by Neruda is god-tier if you are able to see beyond the commie themes, like a non-christian could with la commedia or PL
Matthew Reyes
Can you explain why you liked them so much? I found the Iliad painfully dull.
Brody Hughes
They are written (spoken) in hexameter dactylic. They don`t have a rhyme. Google how it works.
I`m not sure why I liked it so much, but I almost cried several times (and I`ve never cried reading). Something about the characters really moved me.
Jack Evans
Ulysses is technically a parody of the Odysee so try that I suppose.
Andrew Bailey
Under the Volcano Foundation cycle Earthsea Inherent Vice City of Dreaming Books
John Bailey
ulysses
Hunter Rodriguez
Check some spic epic literature
Cantar del Mio Cid (personal favorite) La Araucana Martin Fierro
Joshua Campbell
huh?
Easton Green
>I have the new glorious translation
Jonathan Sanchez
>CTRL+F "Blake" >Phrase not found
Blake.
Considered learning Ancient Greek to read to read them in the original, OP?
