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(The specific editions indicated below are required for this course.)

  • Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1998.
         [ISBN-13: 9780140275360.]
  • Quintus of Smyrna. The Trojan Epic: Posthomerica. Trans. Alan James. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 2007.
         [ISBN-13: 9780801886355.]
  • Aeschylus I. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Ed. David Green. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1969.
         [ISBN-13: 9780226307787.]
  • Sophocles II. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Ed. David Green. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1969.
         [ISBN-13: 9780226307862.]
  • Euripides II. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Ed. David Green. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1956.
         [ISBN-13: 9780226307824.]
  • Euripides III. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Ed. David Green. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1992.
         [ISBN-13: 9780226307831.]
  • Euripides IV. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Ed. David Green. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1968.
         [ISBN-13: 9780226307848.]
  • Euripides V. The Complete Greek Tragedies. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Ed. David Green. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1969.
         [ISBN-13: 9780226307787.]
  • Shakespeare, William. Troilus and Cressida. Ed. Kenneth Muir. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
         [ISBN-13: 9780199536535.]

Suggested Further Reading
Primary Literature

  • Apollodorus. The Library of Greek Mythology. Trans. Robin Hard. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.
         [ISBN-13: 9780199536320.]
  • Apollonios of Rhodes. The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece. Trans. Peter Green. Berkeley: U California P, 1997.
         [ISBN-13: 9780520253933.]
    • This is an ancient Greek epic of the earlier generation of heroes, including Peleus, Telamon, Oileus, Periclymenos (Nestor's older brother), Menoetius, and Heracles, as well as Polydeuces and Castor (Helen's brothers).
  • Hesiod and Theognis. Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies. Trans. Dorothea Wender. New York: Penguin, 1973.
         [ISBN-13: 9780140442830.]
  • Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1997.
         [ISBN-13: 9780140268867.]
  • The Homeric Hymns. Trans. Jules Cashford. New York: Penguin, 2003.
         [ISBN-13: 9780140437829.]
  • Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 2006.
         [ISBN-13: 9780143105138.]