The main aim of this work is to investigate about the permanence of the epic genre in contemporaneity by analyzing the following works: Gonçalo Tavares s Uma viagem à Índia, João Ubaldo Ribeiro s Viva o povo brasileiro, Margaret Atwood s A odisseia de Penélope, e Gustavo Piqueira s A odisseia de Homero (segundo João Vítor). This thesis departs from the point that the epic genre, like any other established paradigm, is and modalized in diferente genres, forming new configurations. Therefore, it focuses on the relationship that the works in the corpus entail with the classical matrix and its stylistic procedures, themes and motifs. All the writers studied establish an ambiguous and explicit intertextual relationship with the classical epics. Departing from the reference to them, they promote their deconstruction and subversion, evidencing their biases, both questioning and reinforcing their viability and importance nowadays.