The Epic of Jangar

The Epic of Jangar

Kalmykia, currently a republic in Southern Russia Transmitted orally for centuries. First published in 1910.   The Epic of Jangar   From ancient times to modernity, epic narratives have served as cultural repositories for humanity’s deepest existential questions....
Manas

Manas

Kyrgyzstan A fragment (in Persian) is dated to the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, but an earlier version may have existed; the first written version of the epic is from the mid-19th century. Anonymous, Manas “…for us, Kirgiz, the dastan remains a...
Eneida navyvarat

Eneida navyvarat

Belarus 1820s The Aeneid Turned Inside Out (Eneida navyvarat) Eneida navyvarat [The Aeneid Turned Inside Out] is a Belarusian burlesque poem dating from the 1820s. Its plot is based on Virgil’s Aeneid, an epic written between 29 and 19 BC.  Eneida navyvarat continues...
Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz

Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz

Poland First published: 1834     Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz (Master Thaddeus) orThe Last Foray in LithuaniaA Gentry Tale from the years 1811 and 1812Comprising Twelve Books in Verse   Published in Paris four years after a failed uprising against Russia...
Rodríguez y Cos, El Anáhuac

Rodríguez y Cos, El Anáhuac

Mexico First published in 1853.   José María Rodríguez y Cos El Anáhuac     Surely, José María Rodríguez y Cos (1823–1899) had the following lines in mind when he composed what he calls his thirteen-canto “epic essay,” El Anáhuac, in the early 1850s: La...