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)
