# List of epic poems

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This is a list of epic poems.

## Ancient epics (to AD 500)
### Before the 8th century BC

* Epic 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 BC

* Iliad, ascribed to Homer (Greek mythology)
* Odyssey, ascribed to Homer (Greek mythology)
* Works and Days, ascribed to Hesiod (Greek mythology)
* Theogony, ascribed to 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 Ceyx
* Capture 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 BC

* Heracleia, 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 BC

* Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes (Greek mythology)

### 2nd century BC

* Annales by Ennius (Roman history; only fragments survive)

### 1st century BC

* De rerum natura by Lucretius (natural philosophy)
* Georgics by Virgil (didactic poem)
* Aeneid by Virgil (Roman religion)

### 1st century AD

* Metamorphoses 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 century

* Buddhacarita by Aśvaghoṣa (Indian epic poetry)

### 2nd to 5th centuries

* Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi by Faltonia Betitia Proba
* The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature: Cilappatikāram, Manimekalai, Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi, Valayapathi, Kundalakēci

### 3rd to 4th centuries

* Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna (Greek mythology)
* De raptu Proserpinae by Claudian (Roman poet, Greek mythology; incomplete)

### 4th century

* Kumārasambhava by Kālidāsa (Indian epic poetry)
* Raghuvaṃśa by Kālidāsa (Indian epic poetry)
* Blemyomachia (Greek, only fragments survive)

### 5th century

* Argonautica Orphica by Anonymous (Greek mythology)
* Dionysiaca by Nonnus (Greek mythology)
* Mahavamsa, written in Pali
* Yadegar-e Zariran, written in Middle Persian

## Medieval epics (500–1500)
### 6th century

* Iohannis by Corippus, Latin epic on the Byzantine conquest of North Africa
* Kar-Namag i Ardashir i Pabagan, This epic narrates the story of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sassanid dynasty, written in Middle Persian

### 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, c. 870)
* 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)

### 11th century

* 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)
* Jahangirnameh by Qāsem-e Mādeḥ (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 (Thai: ลิลิตยวนพ่าย) by Royal Poets of King Borommatrai-lokkanat (c. 1475)
* Mahachat Kham luang (Thai: มหาชาติคำหลวง) 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)
### 16th century

* Lilit Phra Lo (Thai: ลิลิตพระลอ) by King Ramathibodi II (c. 1491–1529)
* Judita (Croatian) by Marko Marulić (1501)
* Shahenshah Nameh and Khamsa (including Timurnameh) by Hatefi, Poetic Epics One about expolits 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 only got published in 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 (c. 1572)
* 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 Lucrece (1594) (Early Modern English) by Shakespeare
* The Dam San of the Ede people (now in Vietnam) is often considered to appear in the 16th or 17th century.

### 17th century

* La 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 Milton
* Khun Chang Khun Phaen (Thai: ขุนช้างขุนแผน), a Thai epic poem by anonymous folk poets (c. 1650–1700)

### 18th century

* Kumulipo by Keaulumoku (1700), an Ancient Hawaiian cosmogonic genealogy first published in 1889
* Telemachus by Anna Seward (epic re-telling of François Fénelon's Les Aventures de Télémaque)
* 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 epic
* Caramuru by Santa Rita Durão (1781)
* Joan of Arc by Robert Southey (1796)
* Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1797)

### 19th century

* The 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 Keats
* Hyperion (1818) and The Fall of Hyperion (1819) by John Keats
* The Battle of Marathon by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1820)
* Phra Aphai Mani by Sunthorn Phu (1821 or 1822–1844)
* Don Juan by Lord Byron (1824), an example of a "mock" epic in that it parodies the epic style of the author's predecessors
* Camões by Almeida Garrett (1825), narrating the last years and deeds of Luís de Camões
* Dona 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 Gypsies (poem) by Alexander Pushkin (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)
* Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (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 Dias
* Kalevipoeg by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1853; Estonian mythology)
* The Prelude by William Wordsworth
* Song 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 Chiểu
* Amir Arsalan, narrated by Mohammad Ali Naqib al-Mamalek to the Qajar Shah of Persia

### 20th century

* The 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 c. 1930–1934, 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 c. 1940–1961)
* 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 Ingamells
* Rashmirathi (1952), Hunkar by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
* Savitri by Aurobindo Ghose (1950)
* The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson (composed 1950–1970)
* The Anathemata by David Jones (1952)
* 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 century

* Sribhargavaraghaviyam (2002), Ashtavakra (2009) and Gitaramayanam (2009–2010, published in 2011) by Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
* Solaris korrigert by Øyvind Rimbereid (2004)
* Lime Stone: An Epic Poem of Barbados (2008) by Anthony Kellman
* Zorgamazoo 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)

## 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 people
* Epic 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 imperatoris
* Heavensfield, 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 Panay
* Hotsuma Tsutae
* Khun 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 Shaddad
* Parsifal 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 Ramayana
* Der 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