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Bibliography of Classical Mythology (September 2023): Primary Resources

By Scott Goins and Barbara H. Wyman

Primary Resources

Apollonius Rhodius. Jason and the Argonauts, trans. by Aaron Poochigian. Penguin, 2014.

The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, new trans. ed. by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm. Modern Library, 2017.

Hesiod. The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Achilles, trans. by Barry B. Powell. California, 2017.

____. Hesiod: Works and Days, trans. by A. E. Stallings. Penguin, 2018.

Homer. The Iliad, new trans. by Caroline Alexander. Ecco, 2015.

____. The Iliad, new trans. by Peter Green. California, 2015. (CH, Sep’15, 53-0093)

____. The Iliad, new trans. by Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton, 2023.

____. The Odyssey, new trans. by Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton, 2018.

____. The Odyssey, new trans. by Peter Green. California, 2018.

Ovid. Metamorphoses, trans. by Stephanie McCarter. Penguin, 2022.

____. Ovid’s Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays, trans. and ed. by Paul Murgatroyd, Bridget Reeves, and Sarah Parker. Routledge, 2017.

Virgil. The Aeneid, trans. by Sarah Ruden. Rev. and expanded ed. Yale, 2021. (1st ed., 2008; [CH, Oct’08, 46-0731.])