The collection contains three pages of the Shahnameh, an epic book of poems by Ferdowsi in Persian, and a Syrian metalwork named the Barberini Vase.

In Robinson's companion book The Martians, the escarpment is the scene of an epic multi-pitched rock climb.

The modern American literature professor and translator Bernard Knox refers to the Ossian book as a forged or fake " collective bardic epic ".

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

The Heliand, a verse epic of the life of Christ in a Germanic setting, and Genesis, another epic retelling of the events of the first book of the Bible, were commissioned in the early ninth century by Louis to disseminate scriptural knowledge to the masses.

While finishing work on Once Upon a Time in America in 1982, Leone was impressed with Harrison Salisbury's non-fiction book The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, and he planned on adapting the book as a war epic.

There is general consensus that books two to six form the oldest portion of the epic while the first book Bala Kanda and the last the Uttara Kanda are later additions.

The story of Garuda's birth and deeds is told in the first book of the great epic Mahabharata.

The book is the progenitor of the modern disaster epic in literature and film-making, where a single disaster intertwines the victims, whose lives are then explored by means of flashbacks to events before the disaster.

Virgil, the Roman epic poet, wrote, in book three of The Aeneid, of how Aeneas and his crew landed on the island of the cyclops after escaping from Troy at the end of the Trojan War.

* Battle of Armageddon ( Left Behind ), an account of the prophesied epic battle from the Left Behind book series

" ( Paradise Lost, I. 412-14 ) His deeds are described in the first book of the epic, as Milton describes Satan's followers who were banished from Heaven, and have pledged themselves as followers of the underworld.

Erato is also invoked at the start of book 7 of Virgil's Aeneid, which marks the beginning of the second half or ' Iliadic ' section of the poem: Calliope ( epic ), even Melpomene ( tragedy ) or Clio ( history ) might seem more appropriate.

Slowly the book's critical capital began to rise to the point that, in 1957, Northrop Frye described Finnegans Wake as the “ chief ironic epic of our time ” and Anthony Burgess lauded the book as " a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.

A fragment of his epic poem on the life of Achilles — the Achilleid — is also extant, consisting of one book and a few hundred lines of a second.

She wrote an epic poem combining her classical Athens educational background by doing a Homeric centos, but adding stories from the book of Genesis and the New Testament stories of the life of Jesus Christ.

As a graphic artist and cartoonist, TenNapel released his first comic book in 1998: GEAR, a surreal epic based on his real life cats, Simon, Waffle, Gordon and Mr. Black in a war against dogs and insects using giant robots as weapons.

Behold A Pale Horse ( 1964 ) was a post-Spanish Civil War epic based on the book Killing A Mouse on Sunday by Emeric Pressburger and starred Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif, but was both a critical and commercial flop ; Zinnemann would later admit that the film " didn't really come together.

Although Follett begins his book with Austin Poole's account of the White Ships sinking to set the historical scene for the subsequent events, in many other ways Follett uses the war as a location for a story about essentially modern personalities and issues, a feature reproduced in the epic costume TV adaptation.

An epic poetry book in Hindi titled Lalita Ke Aansoo written by Krant M. L. Verma was published in 1978.

The original conception of Sir Galahad, whose adult exploits are first recounted in the fourth book of the thirteenth century Old French Arthurian epic the Vulgate Cycle, may derive from the Cistercian Order.

* Samuel Daniel completes the eighth and last book of his epic poem, Civil Wars.

Goldberg's book is an excellent treatment of the development of Roman epic from Livius Andronicus to Ennius to Virgil.

When Lone Wolf and Cub was first released in Japan in 1970, it became wildly popular ( some 8 million copies were sold in Japan ) for its powerful, epic samurai story and its stark and gruesome depiction of violence during Tokugawa era Japan.

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.

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.

The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.

During this time he circulated the first three books of his epic poem, Pharsalia ( labelled De Bello civili in the manuscripts ), which told the story of the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.

Of particular note, Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace – her magnum opus, as well as completing translations of Rilke, Mann, Chekov, Veraline, Akmatova, Shakespeare, and Petrarch, among others, plus many other works including reference books and works for children.

* Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek poet, grammarian and author of the Argonautica, an epic in four books on the voyage of the Argonauts ( b. c. 295 BC )

Among the wisest of the Noldor were Rúmil, creator of the first writing system and author of many epic books of lore.

He takes a major part in the epic Battle of the Trees that ends " The Throne of Scone ", the chronological last of the books published.

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

* De raptu Proserpinae ( unfinished epic, 3 books completed )

Williams published several of Ginsberg's letters to him in his epic poem Paterson and wrote an introduction to two of Ginsberg's books.

Nonnus ' principal work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from antiquity at 20, 426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.

Of the four books of L ' Art poétique, the first and last consist of general precepts, inculcating mainly the great rule of bon sens ; the second treats of the pastoral, the elegy, the ode, the epigram and satire ; and the third of tragic and epic poetry.

The largest commissions of illustrated books were usually classics of Persian poetry such as the epic Shahnameh, although the Mughals and Ottomans both produced lavish manuscripts of more recent history with the autobiographies of the Mughal emperors, and more purely military chronicles of Turkish conquests.

The name for syphilis is derived from Fracastoro's 1530 epic poem in three books, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (" Syphilis or The French Disease "), about a shepherd boy named Syphilus who insulted the sun god of Haiti and was punished by that god with a horrible disease.

* Stephen King's eight-book epic The Dark Tower saga employs the number 19 in books The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, and The Wind Through the Keyhole as a mysterious and important number.

The lost epic Little Iliad, in four books, took up the story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between Telamonian Ajax and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles, carried it down to the feast of the Trojans over the captured Trojan Horse, according to the epitome in Proclus, or to the Fall of Troy, according to Aristotle.

A perceptive subset of those readers — perhaps the majority — know that this so-called epic actually consists of two long and mutually dependent tales, the two Hyperion stories combined and the two Endymion stories combined, broken into four books because of the realities of publishing.

The Argonautica is an epic poem probably intended to be in eight books ( though intended totals of ten and twelve books, the latter corresponding to Virgil's " Aeneid ", an important poetic model, have also been proposed ) written in traditional dactylic hexameters, which recounts Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece.

Mark Rosewater, head designer of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, cites " The Hero's Journey " as a major inspiration for " The Weatherlight Saga ," an epic storyarc that went from 1997 to 2001, and spanned multiple cardsets, comic books, and novels.