Epic catalogue
An epic catalogue is a long, detailed list of objects, places or people that is a characteristic of epic poetry.
Examples
- In the Iliad:{{cite journal|last=Gaertner|first=Jan Felix|year=2001|title=The Homeric Catalogues and Their Function in Epic Narrative|journal=Hermes|volume=129|issue=3 |pages=298–305|jstor=4477439}}
- 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.{{cite book|editor=Christine Perkell|title=Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretative Guide|url=http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/909/reading%20vergil%20s%20aeneid|series=Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture|volume=23|year=1999|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=9780806131399|pages=190–194}}
- 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.{{cite journal|last=Quint|first=David|date=Spring 2007|title=Milton's Book of Numbers: Book 1 of Paradise Lost and Its Catalogue|journal=International Journal of the Classical Tradition|volume=13|issue=4|pages=528–549|doi=10.1007/bf02923024|jstor=30222176|s2cid=161875103 }}