Epic_catalogue
An epic catalogue is a long, detailed list of objects, places or people that is a characteristic of epic poetry.
- 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]
- Christine Perkell, ed. (1999). Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretative Guide. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture. Vol. 23. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 190–194. ISBN 9780806131399.
