Choosing a new epic, help out!

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<p>Well, I’ve got a certain affinity for the classics that’s beginning to manifest. I do plan to eventually go onto the lesser known epics (the cid, song of roland, etc), but I would like to tackle a few more large epics/ epic style poetry books.</p>

<p>So far I’ve got down:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
Gilgamesh
The Inferno (Dante)</p>

<p>And some other smaller ones. I’m thinking of after I finish the last few pages of the Aeneid (which has become my FAVORITE epic even above the iliad which I didn’t think would happen), I’m thinking about finishing Purgatorio and Paradiso (dante), then probably heading to Milton for Paradise Lost/Paradise found. I also want to look into the Voyage of the Argo but I feel like I’m missing some.</p>

<p>I’ve also looked at the Homeric Hymns which I plan to finish.</p>

<p>My question is, what other works on such a grand scale with such incredible literary prowess can I find from the classics and classic authors such as Virgil, Homer, Dante Aligheri, Milton, etc. I want all the good epics, I really do plan to read at least 30 this year, if not alot more.</p>

<p>I guess you could include old greco/roman plays as long as they are more on the “geared for warrior” type of audience that epics are.</p>

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<p>You missed Beowulf (soon to be a movie). In 2000, it was re-translated by the poet Seamus Heaney.</p>

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<p>I’ve read Beowulf, thought I mentioned it. I think everyone has lol.</p>

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<p>Tommy. HAH!</p>

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<p>Ulysses by James Joyce</p>

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<p>Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and some of that King Arthur stuff. </p>

<p>Yay! Classics!</p>

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<p>I loooooooved the Aeneid.</p>

<p>Arthurian Literature: The Once and Future King, Mort de’Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</p>

<p>The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (it’s a tough read, but if you get an annotated version it’s not that bad.)</p>

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<p>Les Miserables, unabridged and in French if you know it. :slight_smile:
Victor Hugo is classic.</p>

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<p>Ulysses by James Joyce = greatest book ever written…fo reals though…</p>

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<p>Les Miserables isn’t an epic, though. However, it’s an awesome book. I read it a couple of years ago. The original French version is much ebtter than any translation.</p>

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<p>Paradise Lost</p>