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jajdude
11-01-2010, 12:32 AM
A cool list here if anyone want to see --great site too

http://listverse.com/2008/07/06/top-10-greatest-epic-poems/
ladderandbucket
11-01-2010, 01:37 PM
Nice list, but kind of predictable. I would be more interested in knowing which poems would make the 11-20 positions.

I would put the Finnish epic The Kalevala at number 11.
JBI
11-02-2010, 04:01 AM
Seems like a pretty weak list. Gilgamesh is interesting and all, but as literature, rather meh. Especially the bits that are pure repetition with just a few words changed.
Wilde woman
11-02-2010, 04:29 AM
Is Ovid's Metamorphoses really considered an epic poem?
Eggys
11-02-2010, 04:52 AM
Well come on the Bible has some pretty competitive poems too. Why wouldn't it be up there?
jajdude
11-06-2010, 09:07 PM
Well I just like that listverse site. Think I've only read Beowulf there as a student. Who cares.
OrphanPip
11-06-2010, 10:46 PM
Well come on the Bible has some pretty competitive poems too. Why wouldn't it be up there?

Well, sections of the Book of Genesis are plagiarized from Gilgamesh anyway.
Sariah
11-09-2010, 05:05 PM
Have you ever read Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"? He employs the elements of an epic poem to satirically dramatize a trivial social tiff. (Pope's cousin stole a lock of hair from the head of a woman he admired, which created a rift between the families. Pope wrote this "epic poem" in an attempt to use humor to reinstate the friendship.) It's an amusing twist.