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.
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