Classical Literature


General Resources| Gilgamesh| Flood Narrative| Stories of God| Homer: Greek Epic Iliad| Iliad| Euripides| Odyssey| Greek Tragedy| Aeshcylus| Sophocles| Euripeds. Medea| Virgil's Aeneid|
General Resources:
  • Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources
  • The Classics Pages
  • The complete world of Greek mythology. BL783 .B88 2004
  • Early Greek myth : a guide to literary and artistic sources. BL782 .G34 1996
  • Figurations of the literary hero
  • Encyclopedia Mythica
  • The golden bough; a study in magic and religion. Ref BL310.F7 1935
  • Index of Maps of the Ancient Greek World
  • Orpheus
  • Perseus Classics
  • Somewhere I have never travelled : the hero's journey. PA3022.E6V36 1996


  • The World of Myth
    Gilgamesh:
  • The archetypal significance of Gilgamesh : a modern ancient hero. PJ3771.G6K58 1991
  • The buried book: the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh. PJ3771.G6 D36 2007
  • The epic of Gilgamesh
  • The epic of Gilgamesh : the Babylonian epic poem and other texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. PJ3771.G5 E5 2000
  • The Epic voice. PN56.E65 E666 2002
  • The evolution of the Gilgamesh epic. PJ3771.G6T5 1982
  • Gilgamesh : a new English version. PJ3771.G5 E5 2004
  • The Gilgamesh epic and Old Testament parallels. PJ3771.G6H4
  • Manichaeism and Ancient Mesopotamian "Gnosticism".
  • The Separation of Wild Animal Nature and Human Nature in Gilgamesh: Roots of a Contemporary Theme.
  • Understanding Gilgamesh: His World and His Story
  • When the Light Came On: The Epic Gilgamesh.

  • Flood Narrative:
  • Engulfing the Bounds of Order : The Myth of the Great Flood in Mencius.
  • An Exploration of Flood Myths.
  • Flood Stories from around the World
  • Noah and Disaster Planning: The Cultural Significance of the Flood Story.
  • Noah : the person and the story in history and tradition. BS580.N6B35 1989
  • Noah's ark and the Ziusudra epic: Sumerian origins of the flood myth
  • The polytheistic origins of the biblical flood narrative.
  • The primordial flood of izhu: an Amazonian Quichua myth-narrative.
  • A probable creation and flood-myth in Portuguese East Africa.
  • When the great abyss opened : classic and contemporary readings of Noah's flood. BS580.N6 P58 2003

  • Stories of God:
  • Greek Mythology at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  • Comments or Commentary? Zeno of Citium and Hesiod's Theogonial.
  • Diotima and Demeter as Mystagogues in Plato's Symposium.
  • Fallible Gods
  • Hesiod as a Catalyst for Western Political Paideia.
  • Hesiod: Poet and Peasant Overtures.
  • Hesiod: the Homeric hymns and homerica
  • The Immortals: Names of the gods.
  • Persephone's Sacred Lake and the Ancient Female Mystery Religion in the Womb of Sicily.

  • Homer: Greek Epic Iliad:
  • The Cambridge companion to Homer. PA4037 .C258
  • Convention Versus Realism in the Homeric Epics
  • The Heroic Women of Greek Epic.
  • Homer : an introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey (1894)
  • Homer and the Will of Zeus.
  • The Homeric epics and the Gospel of Mark. BS2585.5 .M33 2000
  • Homer's Eutopolis: Epic Journeys and the Search for an Ideal Society.
  • Reading Homer in the 21st Century.
  • "Reading" Homer through Oral Tradition.
  • Res Agens: Towards an Ontology of the Homeric Self.

  • Iliad
  • Battle Revenge in Homer's 'Iliad': A Contribution to the Understanding of Narrative Patterns in the Early Greek Epic.
  • The Force of Achilles in the Illiad.
  • The heart of Achilles : characterization of personal ethics in the Iliad. PA4037.Z185 1994
  • The Iliad as politics : the performance of political thought. PA4037 .H36 2002
  • Oxford readings in Homer's Iliad. PA4037.A5 O94 2001
  • Reading the Iliad in the Light of Eternity.
  • The shield of Homer : narrative structure in the Iliad. PA4037.S74 1993
  • Sources of Persuasion in the Iliad.
  • Conversation in the Odyssey.

  • Euripides:
  • Euripides; a collection of critical essays. PA3978.Z9S4
  • Euripides' escape-tragedies : a study of Helen, Andromeda, and Iphigenia among the Taurians. PA3978 .W75 2005
  • EURIPIDES, ELECTRA 300-301.
  • Children of Heracles ; Hippolytus ; Andromache ; Hecuba. PA3612.E8 1995
  • Lament in Euripides' Trojan Women.
  • Ritual irony : poetry and sacrifice in Euripides. PA3978.F6 1985

  • Odyssey:
  • Homer's THE ODYSSEY
  • Homer's Odyssey, Books 19 and 23: Early Recognition; A Solution to the Enigmas of Ivory and Horns, and the Test of the Bed.
  • Odysseus unbound : the search for Homer's Ithaca. PA4167 .B57 2005
  • Polymetis Freud: Some Reflections on the Psychoanalytic Significance of Homer's Odyssey.
  • The raft of Odysseus : the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey. PA4167 .D68 2001
  • TELEMACHUS ??????????: GROWING INTO AN EPITHET.

  • Greek Tragedy:
  • A Sourcebook on the Catharsis Controversy (Aristotle, 'Poetics'; Greece)

  • Aeshcylus:
  • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 681-716.
  • Aeschylus terrorist.
  • Aeschylus : the Oresteia. PA3825.A6 G64 2004
  • Aeschylus's Eumenides: Some Contrapuntal Lines
  • All in the family: Funeral Rites and the Health of the Oikos in Aischylos' Oresteia
  • Athena's Entrance at Eumenides 405 and Hippotrophic Imagery in Aeschylus's Oresteia.
  • A note on A. AG. 410-28 and E. ALC. 347-56.

  • Sophocles:
  • Africanizing Antigone: Postcolonial Discourse and Strategies of Indigenizing a Western Classic.
  • Antigone's Changed Punishment: Gynaecology as Penology in Sophocles' "Antigone."
  • The Beastly House of Atreus.
  • Choral Identity in Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus.
  • The Co-Operative Temper: A Third Dramatic Role in Sophoclean Tragedy.
  • Defect and Recognition in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
  • Drifting out of Reach
  • The hero and the city : an interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. PA4413.O53 W54 1997
  • The identity of Oedipus the king; five essays on the Oedipus tyrannus. PA4413.O7C3
  • Oedipus at Thebes. PA4413.O7K55
  • Oedipus Coloneus, 136-146 and 180-191(?)
  • Oedipus' apology and Sophoclean criticism.
  • PLACING SPEAKING notes on the first stasimon of sophocles' antigone.
  • Similarities between Antigone and Martin Luther King, Jr.: "An unjust laws is no laws at all"
  • Sophacles's OEDIPUS THE KING and Spielberg's MINORITY REPORT.

  • Euripeds. Medea:
  • Countee Cullen's Medea
  • Colchian Medea and Her Circumpontic Sisters.
  • Euripides' Medea and the Problem of Spiritedness.
  • EURIPIDES, MEDEA 131-213.
  • Medea in Corinth: Political Aspects of Euripides' Medea
  • The presentation of the inner self: Euripides' Medea 1021-55 and Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica...
  • Re-living the Apocalypse: Robinson Jeffers' Medea.
  • Wiping Blood from the Walls: Medea's Pleasures of Terror

  • Virgil's Aeneid:
  • Ambiguity of Art in Virgil's Aeneid
  • Arms and the Theologian: Martin Luther's Adversus Armatum Virum Cochlaeum.
  • A comparative study of the Beowulf and the Aeneid. PR1585.H2 1968
  • Darkness visible : a study of Vergil's Aeneid. PA6825.J6
  • The Fall of Tydeus and the Failure of Satan: Statius' Thebaid, Dante's Commedia, and Milton's Paradise Lost.
  • Latin literature. PA6003 .B73 2002
  • Reading Vergil's Aeneid : an interpretive guide. PA6825 .R38 1999
  • REPRESENTING THE OTHER: ERCILLA'S LA ARAUCANA, VIRGIL'S AENEID, AND THE NEW WORLD ENCOUNTER.
  • 'To Find a Face where all Distress is Stell'd': Enargeia, Ekphrasis, and Mourning in the Rape of Lucrece and the Aeneid.
  • Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman self : subject and nation in literary discourse. PA6825 .S94 2005
  • The primacy of vision in Virgil's Aeneid. PA6825 .S63 2005
  • Underworld Sailors in Milton's "Lycidas" and Virgil's Aeneid.
  • Virgil : the Aeneid. PA6825 .G688 2004
  • Virgil's THE AENEID.