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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as epics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,232,377 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as epics)
avg rating 3.93 — 525,413 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as epics)
avg rating 3.50 — 353,138 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 183 times as epics)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,839 ratings — published -19
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,122 ratings — published -1800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as epics)
avg rating 3.86 — 186,398 ratings — published 1667
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as epics)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,786,807 ratings — published 1996
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as epics)
avg rating 4.09 — 177,083 ratings — published 1320
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,210,894 ratings — published 1954
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as epics)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,040,684 ratings — published 1998
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as epics)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,809 ratings — published 1321
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epics)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,567,761 ratings — published 1937
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as epics)
avg rating 4.55 — 860,996 ratings — published 2000
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as epics)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,673 ratings — published 1115
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 59 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 805,706 ratings — published 2005
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,930 ratings — published 8
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as epics)
avg rating 4.66 — 707,189 ratings — published 2010
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as epics)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,333 ratings — published 300
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as epics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,161,985 ratings — published 1954
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,073,292 ratings — published 1955
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as epics)
avg rating 4.34 — 749,908 ratings — published 2011
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,232 ratings — published 1835
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epics)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,730 ratings — published 1957
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,106,981 ratings — published 2007
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,113 ratings — published 1200
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.17 — 373,934 ratings — published 1868
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.54 — 743,436 ratings — published 1959
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as epics)
avg rating 4.35 — 849,012 ratings — published 1989
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,808 ratings — published 1010
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 606,702 ratings — published 1990
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.76 — 517,210 ratings — published 2014
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as epics)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,044,869 ratings — published 2006
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as epics)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,469 ratings — published 1590
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as epics)
avg rating 3.76 — 80,957 ratings — published 1375
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as epics)
avg rating 4.59 — 268,511 ratings — published 1985
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,791 ratings — published 1270
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 34 times as epics)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,701 ratings — published -250
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 3.91 — 311,502 ratings — published 1605
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as epics)
avg rating 4.41 — 218,188 ratings — published 1975
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.04 — 344,806 ratings — published 1977
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 4.38 — 702,588 ratings — published 2007
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epics)
avg rating 3.57 — 628,617 ratings — published 1851
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.11 — 955,233 ratings — published 1878
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epics)
avg rating 4.21 — 856,437 ratings — published 1862
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,621 ratings — published -400
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,266,667 ratings — published 1936
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epics)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,122 ratings — published 1220
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,628 ratings — published 1572
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as epics)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,190,303 ratings — published 2007
“Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
―
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“Whatever their DNA contribution to the region, the Brahmins did bring
with them from India three crucial gifts that proved irresistible right across
the region: Sanskrit, the art of writing and the stories of the great Indian
epics.
No Indian import had a deeper or more long-lasting impact than the
deeds of the heroes of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. From the fifth
century, right on through to the dance and shadow puppetry of the present
day, these would remain a major feature in the art and culture of South-east
Asia.26 In time, even the landscape of South-east Asia began to be renamed
under the influence of the great epics and the stories of their respective
heroes, the Pandava brothers and Lord Rama.
The earliest inscription in Khmer territories dating from the fifth century
records that a ruler in what is now Laos took the Indic name Devanika and
the grandiose Sanskrit title Maharajadhiraja, ‘King of Kings’. This
happened during a ceremony when the King installed an image of Shiva
under the lingam-shaped mountain that towered over his capital of
Champasak. There he consecrated a tank which he named Kurukshetra,
after the plain to the north of Delhi where the great battle of the
Mahabharata was fought”
― The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
with them from India three crucial gifts that proved irresistible right across
the region: Sanskrit, the art of writing and the stories of the great Indian
epics.
No Indian import had a deeper or more long-lasting impact than the
deeds of the heroes of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. From the fifth
century, right on through to the dance and shadow puppetry of the present
day, these would remain a major feature in the art and culture of South-east
Asia.26 In time, even the landscape of South-east Asia began to be renamed
under the influence of the great epics and the stories of their respective
heroes, the Pandava brothers and Lord Rama.
The earliest inscription in Khmer territories dating from the fifth century
records that a ruler in what is now Laos took the Indic name Devanika and
the grandiose Sanskrit title Maharajadhiraja, ‘King of Kings’. This
happened during a ceremony when the King installed an image of Shiva
under the lingam-shaped mountain that towered over his capital of
Champasak. There he consecrated a tank which he named Kurukshetra,
after the plain to the north of Delhi where the great battle of the
Mahabharata was fought”
― The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
