Daredevils of Sassoun is an Armenian heroic epic poem in four cycles (parts), with its main hero and story better known as David of Sassoun, which is the story of one of the four parts.
David of Sassoun, Hakob Kojoyan, 1922
Statue of Sasuntsi Davit in Yerevan by Yervand Kochar (1959)
National epic of the Armenian people David of Sasun. Formed between the 8th and 10th centuries. Hood. A. Kojoyan, 1922
Cover of an Armenian comic book, Sasna Tun (House of Sasun), 1982 by Chris Carapetian
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
A tablet containing a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The first edition (1835) of the Finnish national epic poem Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot