| Like Dante's "Inferno" | 36 |
| Like "Orlando Furioso" | 32 |
| Virgil's "Aeneid," for one | 40 |
| Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," for one | 52 |
| "The Odyssey," for one | 32 |
| "Paradise Lost", e.g. | 31 |
| Long stories | 12 |
| Long tales | 10 |
| Big pictures | 12 |
| Certain writings | 16 |
| Heroic poems | 12 |
| DeMille films | 13 |
| They usually have many extras | 29 |
| Sword-and-sandal flicks | 23 |
| Sprawling tales | 15 |
| Sprawling stories | 17 |
| Some long films | 15 |
| Major works | 11 |
| Homeric works | 13 |
| Heroic stories | 14 |
| Grand tales | 11 |
| Grand stories | 13 |
| Extended narratives | 19 |
| DeMille specialties | 19 |
| Cinematic spectacles | 20 |
| Some big-budget films | 21 |
| Screen whoppers | 15 |
| Heroic sagas | 12 |
| Films with casts of thousands | 29 |
| De Mille specialties | 20 |
| Certain poems | 13 |
| Cast-of-thousands films | 23 |
| Vast tales | 10 |
| They detail heroic deeds | 24 |
| Tales on vast scales | 20 |
| Sweeping stories | 16 |
| Some westerns | 13 |
| Really big shows | 16 |
| Major stories | 13 |
| Majestic tales | 14 |
| Long yarns | 10 |
| Long poems | 10 |
| Long chronicles | 15 |
| Heroic works | 12 |
| Heroic accounts | 15 |
| Great works | 11 |
| Great adventures | 16 |
| Extended and dramatic narratives | 32 |
| DeMille flicks, often | 21 |
| Certain films | 13 |
| Big-budget films | 16 |
| Big pictures? | 13 |
| "How the West Was Won" and others | 43 |
| ''The Iliad'' and ''The Odyssey,'' e.g. | 71 |
| Works inspired by Calliope, e.g. | 32 |
| They usually involve a lot of extras | 36 |
| They might have a lot of extras | 31 |
| These have many extras | 22 |
| The "Star Wars" trilogy, e.g. | 39 |
| Sweeping sagas | 14 |
| Stunning stories | 16 |
| Some long stories | 17 |
| Some Goldwyn productions | 24 |
| Some ancient histories | 22 |
| Sizable accounts? | 17 |
| Protracted poems | 16 |
| Poems like the "Iliad" | 32 |
| Peter Jackson creations | 23 |
| Otto Preminger productions, typically | 37 |
| Oscar-bait movies, often | 24 |
| Memorable works | 15 |
| Many DeMille productions | 24 |
| Long, long stories | 18 |
| Long, important songs | 21 |
| Long heroic tales | 17 |
| Large accounts? | 15 |
| Homeric products | 16 |
| Hollywood extravaganzas | 23 |
| Hardly fast reads | 17 |
| Grist for DeMille | 17 |
| Expansive stories | 17 |
| Epopees | 7 |
| De Mille productions | 20 |
| De Mille films | 14 |
| D. W. Griffith films | 20 |
| Books that require a commitment | 31 |
| Big-scope books | 15 |
| Big-budget movies, often | 24 |
| Big productions | 15 |
| "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," for two | 58 |
| "Paradise Lost" et al. | 32 |
| "Paradise Lost," "Beowulf," etc. | 52 |
| "Odyssey" and "Iliad" | 41 |
| "Lawrence of Arabia" and others | 41 |
| "Iliad" et al. | 24 |
| "Cleopatra" and others | 32 |
| "Cleopatra" and "Gandhi," for two | 53 |
| "Cast-of- thousands" films | 36 |
| "Beowulf" and "Paradise Lost" | 49 |
| "Beowulf" and "El Cid," e.g. | 48 |