Found 1,412 results for "Epic poetry, Latin"
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Aeneis
by Publius Vergilius Maro
I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shore...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
L' Orlando furioso
by Lodovico Ariosto
I SING of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds-all from the time when the Moor...
The song of Hiawatha
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jeff Ulmer
Ye who love the haunts of Nature,
Godfrey of Bulloigne
by Torquato Tasso, Marzio Pieri
ARMS, and the chief I sing, whose righteous hands
Georgica
by Publius Vergilius Maro
Critics since antiquity have seen the last six books of the Aeneid as Virgil's 'Iliad', the story of the war in Italy th...
Satirae
by Horace
The individual poems comprising each book of the Satires are not arranged chronologically in the order of their composit...
Pharsalia
by Lucan
Of wars across Emathian plains, worse than civil wars, and of legality conferred on crime we sing, and of a mighty peopl...
