Rate and Rank Epic Poems/Stories/Ballads
 

Feel free to insert your own.

Beowulf
Gilgamesh,
Odyssey,
Illiad
Aenid
Das Niebelungenlied
Inferno,
Qu'ran
Genesis
Exodus

Those are my favorites off the top of my head.

Beowulf is my favorite, but I like it best juxtaposed with Gardner's Grendel.

The Aeneid is second. I love the scenes in the Aeneid where the war's influence on the (mortal) women is depicted.

I'm not certain how we're defining epic here, but for the sake of argument I prefer the story of Job to Genesis and Exodus, perhaps because the book better fits epic poetry form.

I've never heard of this one: Das Niebelungenlied

The Ramayana probably merits mention on your list, though I've never read much of it.

I misspelled it.

Here's a link of a translated version.

http://omacl.org/Nibelungenlied/

Like you, I'm only vaguely familiar of its existence, never having studied it. Ramayana, that is.

My favorites:

1. Iliad
2. Iliad
3. Aeneid
4. Gilgamesh
5. Odyssey
6. Aeitia (a fragmentary epic by Callimachus - hardly anything remains, but the parts that do are awesome)