Some of the most famous examples of epic poetry include the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Iliad and the Odyssey.

Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey, the Old Iranian books the Gathic Avesta and Yasna, the Roman national epic, Virgil's Aeneid, and the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

One of the first written references to the island is found in the Indian epic Ramayana, which provides details of a kingdom named Lanka that had been created by the divine sculptor Vishwakarma, for Kubera, the lord of wealth.

The ancient Indian epic Ramayana mentions cloves.

In particular, the theatrical version of Thailand's national epic Ramakien, a version of the Indian Ramayana, remains popular in Thailand even today.

The story originates in the Ramayana, a Sanskrit epic from before the time of Christ.

* In Indian epic Ramayana, Sita is lured by a Golden deer which Rama tries to catch.

Today pre-eminently a temple town, Ayodhya is famous for its close association with the epic Ramayana.

The story of this epic has been immortalized by Valmiki in the Ramayana.

In the epic Ramayana, the city of Ayodhya is cited as the birthplace of Lord Sri Rama, a Hindu deity who was worshipped as Lord Vishnu's seventh incarnation.

The Ramayana () is an ancient Sanskrit epic.

In its extant form, Valmiki's Ramayana is an epic poem of some 50, 000 lines.

There is also a version of Ramayana, known as Ramopakhyana, found in the epic Mahabharata.

The main antagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana, Ravana, was a Brahmin from his father's side and a Daitya from his mother's side.

Nepali developed a significant literature within a short period of hundred years in the 19th century, fueled by Adhyatma Ramayana ; Sundarananda Bara ( 1833 ); Birsikka, an anonymous collection of folk tales ; and a version of the South Asian epic Ramayana by Bhanubhakta.

* Van or Vana, meaning forest in Sanskrit, Hindi and many Indian languages, giving rise to terms like Vana Parva ( the Episode of Forest ) in the epic Ramayana

" Yavadvipa " is mentioned in India's earliest epic, the Ramayana.

The earliest positive statement of skepticism is preserved from the epic period, in the Ramayana, Ayodhya kanda, chapter 108, where Jabāli tries to persuade Rāma to accept the kingdom by using nāstika arguments ( but Rāma then refutes him in chapter 109 ):

, is the primary antagonist character of the Hindu epic Ramayana ; who was the Rakshasa king of Lanka.

In the Jain epic of Ramayana, it is Lakshmana who ultimately kills Ravana and not Rama as told in the Hindu version.

# Rama, the king of Ayodhya and the hero of the Hindu epic Ramayana

In the epic poem Beowulf, at lines 456-472, Hroðgar recalls the story of how Ecgþeow ( Beowulf's father ) once came to him for help, for he had slain Heaðolaf, a man from another tribe called the Wulfings, and either couldn't pay the wergild or they refused to accept it.

* 169 BC – Quintus Ennius, epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of Roman poetry.

* Quintus Ennius ( b. 239 BC ), epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of Roman poetry.

The roc is hardly different from the Middle-Eastern ` anqa " عنقاء " ( see phoenix ); it is also identified with the Persian simurgh, the bird which figures in Firdausi's epic as the foster-father of the hero Zal, father of Rustam.

Some very early Greek sources in the Epic Cycle affirmed that Artemis rescued Iphigenia from the human sacrifice her father was about to perform, for instance in the lost epic Cypria, which survives in a summary by Proclus: " Artemis, however, snatched her away and transported her to the Tauroi, making her immortal, and put a stag in place of the girl upon the altar.

He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic film 1900 and as the conflicted father in the Academy award-winning family drama Ordinary People ( 1980 ) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton.

* In folk epic and legends, Miloš was celebrated as the hero of supernatural birth and strength ( his mother was a fairy, demonic creature or his father was a dragon ; he had got his strength from the milk of the mare ).

For example, Gurdjieff claims to have first heard the Epic of Gilgamesh as an oral epic sung from memory by his father ; to have made contact with various ancient brotherhoods including the Sarmoung Brotherhood ; to have copied a map of " pre-sand Egypt "; and to have witnessed a number of miracles and esoteric phenomena.

Thus the epic tale is told from father to son, down through the ages.

They have been continuously portrayed in many films, the most famous of which, multi-million dollar Mughal-e-Azam about Emperor Jahangir's love story ; considered an Indian classic and epic film and also the Bollywood film Jodhaa Akbar about Emperor Akbar's ( Emperor Jahangir's father ) love story.

It is claimed that he well deserves the title of the father of Persian literature, or the Adam or the Sultan of poets even though he had various predecessors, because he was the first who impressed upon every form of epic, lyric and didactic poetry its peculiar stamp and its individual character.

The epic explains that he overheard his father, Arjuna, talking about this with his wife Subhadra, while he was still in his mother ′ s womb.

Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie ( 3 volumes ) is the first of a two-part story dealing largely with the events surrounding the epic voyage and subsequent death of Great Harlock, Captain Harlock's father, in 2964 AD.

The title novella is an epic story that spans fifty years and tells the tale of a father and three sons in the vast spaces of the northern Rocky Mountains around the time of World War I.

Thus the epic tale is told from father to son, down through the ages.

In Estonian mythology and Kreutzwald's epic poem " Kalevipoeg ", King Kalev was the father of King Kalevipoeg and the husband of Linda.

Cinna's literary fame was established by his magnum opus Zmyrna, a mythological epic poem focused on the incestuous love of Smyrna ( or Myrrha ) for her father Cinyras, treated after the erudite and allusive manner of the Alexandrian poets.

The epic begins by narrating Telemachus's difficulties dealing with his mother's suitors and his search for information about his long absent father, events that, temporally, occur nearly at the end of the overall sequence.

Mark Addy Johnson ( born 14 January 1964 ) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Detective Constable Gary Boyle in the British sitcom The Thin Blue Line, Mad TV, Dave in the film The Full Monty, father Bill Miller in the U. S. sitcom Still Standing and most recently as King Robert Baratheon in the HBO medieval fantasy epic Game of Thrones.

In 1917 Kolya continues to help his father build the road, which has become an epic project stretching many miles.

Abteen or Abtin or Aubteen () is a character in Shahnama ( national epic of Iran ), who is the father of Fereydun.

The first part of the epic details the lives of his parents, how they met, and how his father, an Emir, converted to Christianity after abducting and marrying Digenes ' mother.

The epic blends together two historical events: an argument between Herzog Liudolf and his father Otto I in 953-954 ; and the rebellion of Herzog Ernst II from Swabia ( born 1007 ) against his stepfather King Konrad II in 1026-1027

Within seconds, Woodruff ages about fifteen years, finding himself now prepared for an epic quest: rescue his adopted father, avenge the death of his teddy bear by extracting revenge on the BigWig, and unravel the mystery of the Schnibble to help bring harmony back to the city.