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African languages

Lianja a central African epic

Silamaka a Western African epic

Soundiata an African epic

American languages

Tunkashila an American Indian epic

Asian languages

Alpamysh ; all of Central Asia]

Bidasari a Malay epic

Biag Ti Lam-Ang (Life of Lam-Ang) an epic of the Ilocanos of Northern Luzon , Philippines

Darangen an epic from the Maranao people of Mindanao , Philippines

Epic Of King Gesar , a Tibetan epic, generally considered the longest in the world.

Epic Of Gilgamesh , the oldest epic from Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean world

Heike Monogatari a Japanese epic

Hinilawod an epic of the Panay-Bukidnons of the Visayas , Central Philippines .

Mahabharata an epic from India , also known as Bharathayudha in Indonesia

Manas an epic from Kyrgyzstan

Nagarakertagama an Indonesian epic

On Jerusalem an epic written in Greek based on the Old Testament characters of Abraham , Isaac and Joseph

Romance Of The Three Kingdoms , a Chinese novel

Sepha Khun Chang Khun Phaen , a Thai epic

Shahnama a Persian epic

Silappadhikaram a South Indian epic

Arabian Nights a collection of stories from the Mediterranean Arab World

The Tale Of The Heike , a Japan ese novel

Journey To The West (also known as "Monkey"), a Chinese novel

Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative ] --Texas Tech University; contains several full-text epics in their native languages and dialects]

European languages

Aeneid a Roman epic

Beowulf an Anglo-Saxon epic written in Old English

Bylina a Russia n epic A bylina is analogous to a short saga, not an epic. Furthermore it the word for a kind of story rather than a title.

Edda a collection of Iceland ic poems

Iliad a Greek epic

Kalevala a Finnish epic

Kalevipoeg an Estonian epic

Lāčplēsis a Latvian epic

Nibelungenlied a German epic poem

Njál's Saga an Iceland ic saga

Odyssey an epic from Greece

Prince Marko a Serbia n epic

Táin Bó Cúailnge Irish epic

The Tale Of Igor's Campaign a Slavic epic

Zoraje a Slovene epic

Volsunga Saga , a Scandinavia n saga

SEE ALSO

National Epic

National Myth

Founding Myth

[http://aton.ttu.edu/turkishlist.asp Turk epics (dastan)]