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Old 07-15-2007, 01:52 AM   #1
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Default 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.
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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.
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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.
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Old 07-16-2007, 08:59 PM   #4
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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)
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