Arthur, the Round Table, and the Quest for the Holy Grail, were their stock subjects, previous to the appearance of Amadis de Gaule, a work of original fiction remodelled and extended in the fifteenth century by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo.

During the Golden Age, Spain boasts more than two hundred artificial epics, treating of religious, political, and historical matters.

Among these the Auracana of Erzilla, the Argentina of Centenera, and the Austriada of Rufo can be mentioned.

Then Velasco revived the Aeneid for his countrymen's benefit, and religious themes such as Azevedo's Creacion del Munde became popular.
The latest of the Spanish epics is that of Saavedra, who, in his El Moro Exposito, has cleverly revived the old Spanish legend of the Infantes of Lara.

It is, however, the Cid which is always quoted as Spain's representative epic.
THE CID This poem, of some three thousand seven hundred lines, is divided into two cantos-and was written about 1200.