Boardman, John.
Greek Art.
New York, Washington, Frederick A. Praeger, l964. A concise history of the development of Greek art from abstract geometrics to the more expressive paintings of the third-second centuries, B.C.
Bradford, Emle.
Ulysses Found.
New York: Harcourt, Brace,and World, Inc., 1963. A gem of a book which teases the reader into acknowledging Bradford’s conjectural landfalls as real.
Camps, W.A.
An Introduction to Homer.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. A detailed, erudite essay giving comparisons between
The Iliad
and
The Odyssey
in stories, characterizations, and poetry. Copious footnotes.
Finley, M.I.
The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal.
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1981. Professor Finley edits a series of essays on such topics as Greek politics, philosophy, and Homer and the epic. An update of an earlier book with the same title.
Finley, M.I.
The World of Odysseus.
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. An insight into the Mycenaean period which includes warrior culture, social, and moral matters. An interesting but unresolved area is that of men seeking lasting friendships with other men.
Fitzgerald, Robert.
The Odyssey. Homer.
Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1963. A contemporary translation considered best at adhering to the poetic qualities of the epic.
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Wm. E.
Landmarks of Homeric Study.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1972, authorized facsimile. An 1898 study based mostly on observations and comparisons of
The Iliad
and
The Odyssey
with references to the “recent” archaeological finds of Schliemann.
Grant, Michael.
Myths of the Greeks and Romans.
Cleveland and New York: Mentor Books, 1964. Informative and detailed account of the background to major myths and themes.
Head, James G. and Linda MacLea.
Myth and Meaning.
Evanston, Illinois: MacDougal, Littel and Co., 1976. An easy-reading text of comparative mythology.
Love, Iris C.
Greece, Gods, and Art.
New York: Viking Press, 1968. A compendium of Greek art as it illustrates the ancient culture. Worthwhile commentaries, texts on the photographs.
Luce, J.V.
Homer and the Heroic Age.
London, England: Thames and Hudson, l975. This book coordinates the most recent scholarship with diagrams and illustrations. It is a worthwhile addition to one’s personal library and a must for the teaches of Homer.
Page, Denys L.
History and the Homeric Iliad
. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959. The reader should take a cautious approach to Page’s speculations: he weighs Greek descriptions to artifacts and presumes that spears were probably ash wood, greaves probably were worn by Achaeans but not Trojans, and that the traditional 1,186 ships sailing to Troy may have been dictated by meter rather than by fact.
Rose, H.J.
A Handbook of Greek Mythology
. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1959.
Schefold, K.
Myth and Legend in Early Greek Art
. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966. Dr. Schefold develops early Greek culture from myths and legends as revealed on vases, amphorae, and reliefs from buildings or shields. A most scholarly compilation.