Epic catalogue
# 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:
   * 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.
* 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.
