As a quick reaction?

Homer's work, Canterbury Tales, Hella Haasse's In a Dark Wood Wandering (dutch: Het woud der verwachting), Lord of the Rings.

The Lord Of The Rings

the fight between Gandalf ans the balrog

Gilgamesh!

first thought is Cantar de mio Cid / The Poem of the Cid, second thought is Homer

For me, the first stories that come to mind are The Lord of the Rings, Beowulf, Völsunga saga, and the Nibelungenlied.

Clearly, I have specific leanings in this area (I studied a lot of Tolkien at university). 😉

those in JIRA.

Iliad, Odyssey, Gilgemesh, Icelandic Sagas, Mahabharata, Beowulf. Nothing modern to me.

The Iliad. Mahabharata. The Lord of the Rings.

...gilgamesh? beowulf? LotR?

Manas
Ilias & Odyssey
Kalevala
Gilgamesh & Etana

La Chanson de Roland, Iliad & Odyssey, Die Niebelungen…

...of Gilgamesh

In a film? Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea in "The Ten Commandments".

Saw it as a child in the cinema ... staring up at the walls of water pouring seemingly right there in Birmingham just for us!!

That was *Epic* :)

iliad, odyssey, gilgamesh, bhagavad gita, yer targyn (kazakh epic)

I think if Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea, which of course reinvents sagas.

homer

Anything above apart from Lord of the wrings (still absolutely no idea what that's all about; please try and repair me).

Gulliver's travels,
My Grandmother,

anything concerning;
Pavarotti,
Tebaldi,
Pucini,
William Shatner,
Pino Daniele,
Young Rossini AND Von Beethoven (!)
Caravaggio,
Bulgarian yoghurt
Eccccc

Anything I haven't had the time for yet to explore.

There is so much to discover. I need more than just one lifetime.

Gilgamesh & The Odyssey

traditional epic? Probably the oddesey & the eddas. In my head the rest of the traditional tales are too fragmented (Arthur, Robin Hood, etc) to be epic.

Trad epic? Not the answer you're looking for I'm sure but any personal story about a rock climbing adventure gone dangerously awry but survived.

Beowulf, Lāčplēsis, something Old Norse.

Beowulf, Odyssey

The Epic of Gilgamesh