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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) Epic Literature
Topic: Epic LiteratureThe epic poem or story is a common way for a civilization to tell stories about how it was founded and the central moral and political values which underpin its society. Epic stories are related to the problem of liberty because many of these foundation stories deal with issues such as the nature of legitimate authority, the problem of rebellion, and external threats to the stability of the community.
9 Titles in this Group:
| authors and editors |
title |
pub. date ↑ |
| author: Beowulf, translator: William Morris, translator: Alfred John Wyatt |
The Tale of Beowulf, sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats |
750 AD |
| author: Dante Alighieri, translator: Courtney Langdon |
The Divine Comedy, in 3 vols. (Langdon trans.) |
1321 |
| author: Virgil, translator: John Dryden |
The Aeneid (Dryden trans.) |
1697 |
| author: Homer, translator: Thomas Hobbes, editor: Sir William Molesworth |
The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 10 (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey) |
1839 |
| author: Moses, author: Old Testament (Various Authors) |
The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus (KJV) |
1885 |
| author: John Milton, editor: Henry Charles Beeching |
The Poetical Works of John Milton |
1900 |
| author: Misc (Mahabharata), translator: Romesh C. Dutt |
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata |
1917 |
| author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, author: Gilgamesh |
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh |
1920 |
| author: Gilgamesh, editor: Morris Jastrow, editor: Albert T. Clay |
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic |
1920 |
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