1.
The Aeneid (29–19 BCE,
Rome)
2.
Ovid's Metamorphoses (8 CE, Rome)
3.
The Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna.
(3rd–4th century CE, Greece)
4.
Pharsalia (c. 61–65 CE, Rome)
5.
The Punica by Silius Italicus (c. 83–96 CE, Rome)
6.
The Thebaid by the Roman poet Statius (c. 92 CE, Rome)
7.
The Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century CE, late antiquity)
8.
The Psychomachia by Prudentius (c. 405 CE, Latin Christian allegory)
9.
The Heliand (9th century
CE, Old Saxon biblical epic)
10.
Digenes Akritas (10th–12th
century CE, Byzantine Greek)
11.
The Five Great Epics - Cilappatikāram,
Manimekalai,
Cīvaka
Cintāmaṇi, Valayapathi
and Kundalakesi.
(c. 1st–10th centuries CE, South India)
12. Ramayana (final
form c. 5th century BCE–3rd century CE, India)
13. Mahabharata (compiled
c. 400 BCE–400 CE, India)
14.
The Tale of the Heike (c. 13th
century CE, Japan)
15.
The Tale of Genji (early 11th
century CE, Japan)
16. Romance of the Three Kingdoms (14th century CE, China)
17. Journey to the West (16th century CE, China)
18. Water Margin (14th century CE, China)
19. Dream of the Red Chamber (18th century CE, China)
20. The Plum in the Golden Vase (16th–17th century CE, China)
21. The Scholars by Wu Jingzi (18th century
CE, China)
22. Classic of Mountains and Seas (compiled c. 4th–2nd century BCE, China)
23.
The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated
variously as the Book of Songs. (c. 1000–600
BCE, China)
24.
The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen (17th–18th century CE, Thailand)
25.
The Tale of Kiều (early 19th
century CE, Vietnam)
26.
Paradise Lost by John
Milton (1667 CE, England)
27.
Paradise Regained by John Milton (1671 CE, England)
28.
Samson Agonistes by John Milton (1671 CE, England)
29.
Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1516–1532 CE, Italy)
30.
Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo (1495 CE,
Italy)
31.
The Poetic
Edda (c. 13th century CE, Icelandic compilation of older poems)
32.
Popol Vuh c.
1550 CE
33.
The
Lusiads by Luís de Camões (1572 CE, Portugal)
34.
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso (1581
CE, Italy)
35.
La
Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla (1569–1589 CE, Spain/Chile)
36.
The Metamorphoses
of Apuleius (c. 2nd century CE, Roman North Africa)
37.
Satyricon
by Petronius (c. 60 CE, Rome)
