List of epic poems


This is a list of epic poems.

Ancient epics (to AD 500)

Before the 8th century BC

8th to 6th centuries BC

5th to 4th centuries BC

3rd century BC

2nd century BC

1st century BC

1st century AD

2nd century

2nd to 5th centuries

3rd to 4th centuries

4th century

5th century

Medieval epics (500–1500)

6th century

7th century

8th to 10th centuries

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

15th century

Modern epics (from 1500)

16th century

17th century

18th century

Kumulipo by Keaulumoku, an Ancient Hawaiian cosmogonic genealogy first published in 1889Henriade by Voltaire Utendi wa Tambuka by Bwana Mwengo Der Messias by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock La Pucelle d'Orléans by Voltaire Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill O Desertor das Letras by Silva Alvarenga, a short mock-heroic epicCaramuru by Santa Rita Durão Joan of Arc by Robert Southey Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

19th century

20th century

21st century

Other epics