Epic Poetry

[thegoldendonut]

El Cid is a cool guy. eh kills Muslims, defrauds Jews, and doesn't afraid of anything.

Seriously though, after finishing El Cantar de Mio Cid I can easily put it in the #1 spot of my favorite hero-epics. Of course, seeing as how the only other one I've read is Beowulf, that probably doesn't say all that much

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[firstcrusader]

The Odyssey is a must, of course. The Iliad and the Aenead are both... meh.

[firstcrusader]

Oh, and I think I've mentioned The Golden Ass to you before. It's... kind of a Roman parody of an epic? Ish? There's also this great medieval french poem called "Silence" (Arthurian era) that I quite liked.

[thegoldendonut]

I don't remember you mentioning it before, but I'll look into it eventually. I ended up going for Don Juan this time, of all things.