(The name of) a Latin epic poem in twelve books by Virgil (70–19 b.c.) which relates the travels and experiences of Aeneas after the fall of Troy…

(The name of) one of two great hexametric epic poems of ancient Greece traditionally attributed to Homer (the other being the Iliad), which…

One of the two great epic poems of ancient Greece (the other being the Odyssey) traditionally attributed to Homer, describing the ten years' siege…

(The name of) one of the two major ancient Hindu epics, written in Sanskrit and ascribed to the poet Valmiki. Cf. Mahabharata, n.

the title of a poem on the exploits of Theseus; transferred a poem of the same character as the ‘Theseid of hoarse Codrus’ referred to by Juvenal.

The territory belonging to (a) Egyptian, or (b) Bœotian Thebes; the name of certain poems, esp. that of Statius relating to Bœotian Thebes.

A title given in Spanish literature to Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity against the Moors in the 11th century; and to the epic…

(The name of) one of the two major ancient Hindu epics, traditionally ascribed to the poet Vyāsa and containing the central Hindu religious text…

A 13th-cent. Middle High German epic telling the story of Siegfried and the curse of the Nibelungs' treasure. Also in extended use.