Who knows some epic poems like Iliad???

Question

but they have to be heroic (Iliad is an historic one)

Answer 1

Beowolf, The Odyssey, Ramayana

Answer 2

Have you read The Odyssey by Homer. It's a sort of a sequel to the Illiad. Another epic poem, though short, is The Highwayman. Robin Hood was originally poems too. They're pretty good

Answer 3

Check out Geoffery Chaucer, he wrote a lot of heroic poems, Beowulf, Gawain and the Green Knight, Etc. They are great stories, I would highly reccommend them.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Check the Germanic 'Die Nibelungen'.

Answer 6

Here are a few:

"Ancient epics (to 500)
20th century BC:
Mahabharata, ascribed to Ugrasravas (Sanatan Dharam)
Ramayana, ascribed to Valmiki (Sanatan Dharam)
Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian mythology)
8th to 6th century BC:
Iliad, ascribed to Homer (Greek mythology)
Odyssey, ascribed to Homer (Greek mythology)
Lost Greek epics ascribed to the Cyclic poets:
Epic Cycle including Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Sack of Troy, Return from Troy, Telegony
Theban Cycle including Oedipodea, Thebaid, Epigoni (epic), Alcmeonis
Others: Titanomachy, Heracleia, Capture of Oechalia, Naupactia, Phocais, Minyas, Danais
Jaya, ascribed to Vyasa (Hindu mythology)
7th to 5th century BC:
Bharata, ascribed to Vaisampayana (Hindu mythology)
6th to 4th century BC:
Lost Greek epics: poems by Aristeas (Arimaspeia), Asius of Samos, Chersias of Orchomenus
The Book of Job
6th to 2nd century BC:
3rd century BC:
Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
2nd century BC:
Annales by Ennius
1st century BC:
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) by Lucretius
Aeneid by Virgil
Kumaarasambhavam by Kālidāsa (Indian epic poetry)
1st century AD:
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Pharsalia (Bellum Civile or Civil War) by Lucan
Punica (Bellum Punicum or Punic War) by Silius Italicus
Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus
Thebaid by Statius
2nd century:
Buddhacarita by Aśvaghoṣa (Indian epic poetry)
2nd to 5th century:
The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature:
Cilappatikaram by Prince Ilango Adigal
Manimekalai by Seethalai Saathanar
Civaka Cintamani by Tirutakakatevar
Valayapati by a Jaina poet
Kundalakesi by a Buddhist poet
3rd century:
Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna
4th century:
Evangeliorum libri by Juvencus
5th century:
Dionysiaca by Nonnus
[edit]Medieval Epics (500-1500)
8th to 10th century:
Beowulf (retelling of Teutonic legends)
Waldere, Old English version of the story told in Waltharius (below), known only as a brief fragment
9th century:
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) compiled by Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar from earlier sources
Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit "Stories of the Lord") written from earlier sources
10th century:
Shahnama by Firdowsi (fictional retelling of ancient Persian history)
Waltharius by Ekkehard of St Gall, Latin version of the story of Walter of Aquitaine
The Battle of Maldon, brief Old English epic describing a recent battle
11th century:
Poetic Edda (Norse mythology) (collection of poems of Norse mythology from various sources; dates of composition vary within the collection, but the majority of poems existed before the 12th century based on the excerpts in the Prose Edda)
Ruodlieb, Latin epic by a German author
Digenis Akritas (Byzantine epic poem)
La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)
Epic of King Gesar (Tibetan epic; compiled from earlier sources)
Epic of Manas (possibly later)
12th century:
The Knight in the Panther Skin by Shota Rustaveli
Alexandreis, Latin epic by Walter of Châtillon
De bello Troiano and the lost Antiocheis by Joseph of Exeter
Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis (Latin version of the story of the Song of Roland)
Architrenius, satirical Latin epic by John of Hauville
Liber ad honorem Augusti by Peter of Eboli, Latin narrative of the conquest of Sicily by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
13th century:
Nibelungenlied (Germanic mythology)
Brut by Layamon
Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise ("Song of the Albigensian Crusade"; Occitan)
Epic of Sundiata
El Cantar de Mio Cid, Spanish epic of the Reconquista
De triumphis ecclesiae, Latin literary epic by Johannes de Garlandia
14th century:
Cursor Mundi by an anonymous cleric (c. 1300)
Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri
Africa, Latin literary epic by Petrarch
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Tale of the Heike (Japanese epic war tale)
15th century:
Alliterative Morte Arthure
Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo (1495)
Modern Epics (from 1500)
16th century:
Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1516)
Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões (c.1555)
La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso (1575)
Ramacharitamanasa (based on the Ramayana) by Goswami Tulsidas (1577)
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (1596)
17th century:
Szigeti veszedelem, also known under the Latin title Carmen Obsidionis Szigetianae, a Hungarian epic by Miklós Zrínyi (1651)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Paradise Regained by John Milton (1671)
Prince Arthur by Richard Blackmore (1695)
King Arthur by Richard Blackmore (1697)
18th century:
Eliza by Richard Blackmore (1705)
Redemption by Richard Blackmore (1722)
Henriade by Voltaire (1723)
Alfred by Richard Blackmore (1723)
Utendi wa Tambuka by Bwana Mwengo (1728)
Leonidas by Richard Glover (1737)
Epigoniad by William Wilkie (1757)
The Works of Ossian by James MacPherson (1765)
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire** by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773)
Der Messias by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1773)
Rossiada by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov (1771-1779)
Vladimir by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov (1785)
Athenaid by Richard Glover (1787)
19th century:
Columbiad by Joel Barlow (1807)
Milton: a Poem by William Blake (1804-1810)
Hyperion by John Keats (1818)
L'Orléanide, Poème national en vingt-huit chants, by Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes (1821)
Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1824)
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz (1834)
Smrt Smail-age Čengića by Ivan Mažuranić (1846)
Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot (1849 Finnish mythology)
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
La Légende des Siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) by Victor Hugo (1859-1877)
Clarel by Herman Melville (1876)
Canigó by Jacint Verdaguer (1886)
20th century:
Lahuta e Malcís by Gjergj Fishta (composed 1902-1937)
Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa
The Hashish-Eater; Or, The Apocalypse of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith (1920)
Savitri by Aurobindo Ghose (1950)
Astronautilía-Hvězdoplavba by Jan Křesadlo
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek verse, composed 1924-1938)
The Cantos by Ezra Pound (composed 1915-1969)
A Cycle of the West by John Neihardt (composed 1921-1949)
"A" by Louis Zukofsky (composed 1928-1968)
Paterson by William Carlos Williams (composed c.1940-1961)
The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson (composed 1950-1970)
Libretto for the Republic of Liberia by Melvin B. Tolson (1953)
Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder (composed 1965-1996)
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill (composed 1976-1982)
Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990)
Cheikh Anta Diop: Poem for the Living by Mwatabu S. Okantah (1997)

Prose "Epics"

Mythological
ALPAMYSH Central Asian [1] (prose and verse)
Táin Bó Cúailnge (Irish mythology) (prose and verse)
Hervarar saga (Norse mythology) (prose)
Völsunga saga (Norse mythology) (prose)
16th to 18th Century
Journey to the West by Chinese author Wu Cheng'en (1590)
Don Quixote Parts I & II by Miguel de Cervantes (prose 1605/1615)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (prose 1749)
19th Century
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père (prose 1844)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (prose 1851)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (prose 1862)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (prose 1869)
Venezuela Heroica, by Eduardo Blanco (history 1881)
20th Century
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein (prose composed 1906-1908, published 1925)
À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust (prose composed 1913-1922, published 1914-1927)
Ulysses and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (prose 1922 and 1939)
The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (prose 1954 and 1977)
The Recognitions and J R by William Gaddis (prose 1955 and 1975)
Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (prose1973 and 1997)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (prose 1996)