Classics, myths, epics, and more for fans of fantasy
This video is full of recommendations for lovers of fantasy for readings among the epics, myths, and ancient tales that sustained the human imagination for thousands of years and established many of the themes and archetypes common in fantasy. Texts mentioned: The Mahabharata (including the Bhagavad Gita), The Ramayana, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Poetic Edda, The Prose Edda, The Saga of the Volsungs, The Niebelungenlied, The Mabinogion, Early Irish Myths and Legends, The Lais of Marie de France, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The One Thousand and One Nights, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Paradise Lost, The Kalevala.

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