Read the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the Mahabharata epic
Ten years of Odysseus getting home: the Cyclops, the Sirens, and the bow only he can string.
Two hundred and fifty myths of transformation in one poem; where the Renaissance got its gods.
The last foray in Lithuania in 1811, in thirteen books of verse; the Polish national epic.
Aeneas from burning Troy to the founding of Rome; Virgil's answer to Homer.
Dante through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with Virgil and Beatrice; read the Inferno at least.
Fifty days of the Trojan War, the rage of Achilles and the death of Hector; the first book of the West.
Milton's Satan, the most charismatic villain in English verse, and the Fall told in twelve books.
Journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in the poem that founded the Italian language
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