Epic Poetry
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Apollonius of Rhodes — Argonautica (Hellenistic epic tradition, c. 3rd century BCE)
462 BCE - 1997
Atrahasis (Old Babylonian Flood and Creation Epic, c. 18th–7th century BCE)
278 BCE - 1969
Enuma Elish (Babylonian Creation Epic, c. 12th–7th century BCE)
1150 BCE - 2000
Epic of Erra (Assyrian/Babylonian cult epic and plague narrative, c. 8th century BCE)
2005 BCE - 650 BCE
Hesiod: Theogony (Greek cosmogonic epic-poem tradition, c. 8th–7th century BCE)
700 BCE - 1966
Hesiod: Works and Days (Greek didactic-epic tradition, c. 8th–7th century BCE)
700 BCE - 1978
Homer: The Iliad (Oral tradition to classical text, c. 8th–4th century BCE)
800 BCE - 950
Homer: The Odyssey (Oral tradition to classical text, c. 8th–4th century BCE)
800 BCE - 100 BCE
Homeric Hymns (Collection of Greek epic hymns and cult poetry, c. 7th–3rd century BCE)
700 BCE - 2026
Ovid — Metamorphoses (Roman narrative epic and reception, 8 CE)
8 - 2026
Sumerian Lugalbanda & Enmerkar Cycle (Early Mesopotamian heroic sagas, c. 3rd–2nd millennium BCE)
2100 BCE - 1800 BCE
Tale of Sinuhe (Middle Kingdom Egyptian narrative tradition, c. 1900–1700 BCE)
1991 BCE - 1973
The Epic Cycle (Poems of the Trojan cycle: Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, etc., c. 7th–4th century BCE)
700 BCE - 950
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian to Standard Babylonian traditions, c. 2100–600 BCE)
2100 BCE - 2003
The Mahabharata (Indian epic: composition, redaction, and manuscript traditions, c. 400 BCE–400 CE)
400 BCE - 1966