Just ordered the Mahabharata. Suggest me similar good epics that are almost revered to be national icons and part of heritage of a country

Books I have read till now which could be said to meet the expectations I set above:

1. Iliad and The Odyssey

2. The Epic of Gilgamesh

3. The Aeneid

4. Bhagavad Gita

5. History of the Peloponnesian War

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Books which could definitely be considered Epics but not enough time has passed for them to reach that revered stratosphere of national epics. (NOT LOOKING FOR THESE)

1. War and Peace

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edward Gibbons

3. The Second World War. Winston Churchill

4. Wolf Hall

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I have narrowed it down to 4 choices

Before you say Beowulf I say to you "ROPE AND COPE"

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!bookworms need help with finding Japanese/Chinese/Korean Ancient epics. Suggestions?

I'm seeing there's a trend that most of the greatest historical epics stretch from Mediterranean to present day Afghanistan and North West India. The same region which was said to be the land of the Aryans. !nooticers

!bharatiya should have consulted you guys before doing this but I just express ordered the Vivek DevRoy translation (I would trust an Indian translator more than a non Indian one) but I don't know if there are better ones. Do you think it's a good enough translation?