Walter Goffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of an oral tradition, and is sceptical that it can be dismissed as merely a typical topos of an epic poem.

( However, Pausanias 6. 18. 6 expresses doubt about his authorship of an epic poem on Alexander.

Zoticus, a Neoplatonist philosopher of the 3rd century AD, wrote an epic poem based on Plato's account of Atlantis.

Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.

" And did those feet in ancient time " is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books.

Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

It is an epic poem told in historical perspective ; a story of epic events and of great people of a heroic past.

Crowne have proposed the idea that the poem was passed down from reciter to reciter under the theory of oral-formulaic composition, which hypothesises that epic poems were ( at least to some extent ) improvised by whoever was reciting them.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

The cavalry of Hunas and the Kambojas is also attested in the Raghu Vamsa epic poem of Sanskrit poet Kalidasa.

In the Epic poetry | epic poem Nibelungenlied ( Song of the Nibelungs ), Siegfried is famously stabbed in the back by Hagen ( legend ) | Hagen.

It was chosen from Virgil's epic poem Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

Another type of epic poetry is epyllion ( plural: epyllia ), which is a brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme.

** Mlokhim-Bukh ( Old Yiddish epic poem based on the Biblical Books of Kings )

The Annales was an epic poem in fifteen books, later expanded to eighteen, covering Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of Cato the Elder in 184 BC.

It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter metre used in Greek epic and didactic poetry, leading it to become the standard metre for these genres in Latin poetry.

Lucretius apotheosized Epicurus as the main character of his epic poem De rerum natura.

He was the subject of the oldest extant Spanish epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid.

Flutes are also mentioned in a recently translated tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem whose development spanned the period of approximately 2100-600 BCE.

In 1880, Sullivan wrote the cantata The Martyr of Antioch, presented at the Leeds Triennial Music Festival, with a libretto modified by Gilbert from an 1822 epic poem by Henry Hart Milman concerning the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch in the 3rd century.

In 1819, Severn was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Academy for his painting Una and the Red Cross Knight in the Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

Edmund Spenser, a famous English poet best known for his epic poem ' The Faerie Queene '

* In the Medieval epic poem The Faerie Queene, Sir Artagel's sword is made of Adamant.

Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue — in particular, English military power — through a folk etymology that associated Brit -, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as " of Mars ", the Roman war god.

The English epic poet Edmund Spenser further embellished this myth at the opening of Book V of The Faerie Queene ( 1596 ), where he claims that Astraea left behind " her groome | An yron man ", called Talus.

In the Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene ( 1590-96 ), Silvanus appears in Canto VI of Book I.

The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene.

Orlando Furioso was a major influence on Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene.

In 1590, Edmund Spenser also composed a very famous pastoral epic called The Faerie Queene, in which he employs the pastoral mode so as to accentuate the charm, lushness, and splendor of the poem's ( super ) natural world.

Before Shakespeare it was also used in Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene and in the anonymous play King Leir.

It is named after a character in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene ( 1590 ).

While living as tenant at Little Holland House, Watts's epic paintings were exhibited in Whitechapel by his friend and social reformer Canon Samuel Barnett, and he finally received a commission for the Houses of Parliament, completing his The Triumph of the Red Cross Knight ( from The Faerie Queene ) in 1852-53.

* Edmund Spenser references Faith, Hope and Charity in Book I of his epic poem The Faerie Queene through the characters of Fidelia, Speranza and Charissa.

This movement is characterized by the flowering of English music ( particularly the English adoption and development of the madrigal ), notable achievements in drama ( by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson ), and the development of English epic poetry ( most famously Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and John Milton's Paradise Lost ).

The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene ( Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6 ):

Edmund Spenser, the poet, made the district famous in his epic The Faerie Queene.

Moreover, as Ariosto's epic was a source text for Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen, Belphebe's mind has become confused, reverting in accord with the setting to that of her Furioso prototype, Belphagor.

* King Arthur also features as " Prince Arthur " in some works, as in Richard Blackmore's epic Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem in X Books and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen

Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene was well known, but England, unlike France with The Song of Roland or Spain with the Cantar de Mio Cid or, most of all, Italy with the Aeneid, had no epic poem of national origins.

The poem begins in the tone of an epic masterpiece, presenting Shadwell's defining characteristic as dullness, just as every epic hero has a defining characteristic: Odysseus's is cunning ; Achilles's is wrath ; the hero of Spenser's The Faerie Queene is of holiness ; whilst Satan in Paradise Lost has the defining characteristic of pride.

Soon after his publication of The Shepheardes Calender, Spenser began writing his epic, The Faerie Queene.

* Braggadocchio, a fictional character in the epic poem The Faerie Queene

In The Faerie Queene, an incomplete English epic poem, by Sir Edmund Spenser, the home of ' old Timon, Prince Arthur ’ s sage foster-father " is low in a valley greene, | Under the foot of Rauran mossy hore ".