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In advance before April's blog series on women's epics, I am curious if there are any that people know, or want to know about. :)

Do you know any epics about women? Name them in comments and I'll tell you if they will be included!

(And by "epic" I also mean sagas, shamanic songs, monogatari, and chivalric romances.)

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Nervensäge 💐
Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
Seems like that one is a novel
Nervensäge 💐
Isn't a novel an epic too?
In German "episch" means that it is not in rhymes.
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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
then it's a translation issue :) Here I am talking specifically about traditional epics (think Gilgamesh, Odyssey, Mahabharata, that kind of stuff).
Nervensäge 💐
In German that's "Dichtung" (poetry).
Author-ized L.J.
The Korean shamanic chant of Princess Bari?
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
That's a good one! I didn't include it because I have worked with it before and I wanted to read new things. But it's an amazing story :)
Author-ized L.J.
Glad it's made the list before, it's quite something xD
jandi
https://starofmysore.com/epics-about-women/amp/

Epics about Women

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The epics Ramayana and Mahabharata reached…
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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
Ding ding ding! :) Juliana will be included! :)
fullfathomfive
The Descent of Innana is the only one I know off the top of my head
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág
I considered including that one. It could technically be considered an epic, I guess. In the end I didn't include it because I'm familiar with it, and I wanted to read stuff that was new to me too.
fullfathomfive
I consider it the Ur-epic from which all other epics descend. Funny how the epic became such a masculine genre.

Looking forward to learning about other epics about women in your series :)
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