Epic catalogue
Detailed lists in epic poetry
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An epic catalogue is a long, detailed list of objects, places or people that is a characteristic of epic poetry.
Examples
- In the Iliad:[1]
- Catalogue of Ships, the most famous epic catalogue
- Trojan Battle Order
- In the Odyssey, the catalogue of women in Hades in Book XI.
- In the Argonautica, the catalogue of heroes in Book I.
- In the Aeneid, the list of enemies the Trojans find in Etruria in Book VII. Also, the list of ships in Book X.[2]
- In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the catalogue of Actaeon's dogs (Book I) and of trees (Book X).
- In the Völuspá, the "Dvergatal" or catalogue of dwarfs.
- In The Faerie Queene, the list of trees I.i.8-9 and the list of rivers IV.xii.
- In Paradise Lost, the list of demons in Book I.[3]
