This work examines two examples of biblical epic literature: Antonino Alfanos Battaglia celeste (1568) and Erasmus of Valvasones Angeleida (1590), situating their works and this genre within their ancient, medieval, and early modern context. While these two biblical epics have drawn only scant attention, limited mostly to literary circles, the biblical epic genre bears out the influence of such classical masterpieces as Homers Iliad and Virgils Aeneid. At the same time, readers will undoubledly discover these two biblical epics relationship to, and likely influence on John Miltons masterpiece...