Arma virumque cano... - Latin Epic Poetry from Antiquity
A list of most epic poems (complete and fragmentary) that we have conserved and were written in Latin and during Antiquity (so no medieval works). I wasn't able to find an English edition for each work, and the fragments of different works might also be grouped together sometimes.
created by mythos
last updated July, 2026
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List of the works mentioned here (Latin titles)
Claudianus, De raptu Proserpinae (unfinished) Ennius, Annales (fragmentary) Livius Andronicus, Odusia (fragmentary translation of the Odyssey) Lucan, De bello civili/Pharsalia Lucretius, De rerum natura Naevius, Bellum punicum (fragmentary) Ovid, Metamorphoses Silius Italicus, Punica Statius, Thebaïs Statius, Achilleis (unfinished) Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica Virgil, Aeneis
Just realised after like months that for some reason Kafka's Metamorphosis was on here??? I must have misclicked when putting Ovid's, oops 🙈🙈
