An Anthology of Greek Drama: First Series
. Ed. C.A. Robinson, Jr. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1949, This collection contains
Agamemnon
by Aeschylus,
Oedipus the Kinff
and
Antiffone
by Sophocles,
Medea
and
Hippolytus
by Euripides and
Lysistrsta
by Aristophanes; contains an introduction to the time period, authors and themes, a section on the production of Greek plays and a plan of a Greek theater; paperback.
An Anthology of Greek Drama: Second Series
. Ed. C.A. Robinson, Jr. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1954, This collection contains Prometheus Bound, Choephoroe and Eumenides by Aeschylus, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, The Trojan Women and the Bacchae by Euripides, and The Clouds and The Froffs by Aristophanes; contains an introduction on the time period, authors and themes, and a section on the production of Greek plays; paperback.
Campbell, Joseph.
Myths To Live By
. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1972. This book explores the definition of mythology in relation to the human race and modern society; contains reference notes for other sources on similar topics; paperback.
Grant, Michael.
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
. New York: The New American Library, Inc., X962. Grant studies the classic myths of Homer’s
Iliad
and
Odssey
; Hesiod’s
Theogony
; Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
; the Homeric hymns to Apollo and Demeter; the
Oresteia
and
Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus;
Oedipus the King, , Oedipus at Colonus
and
Antiffone
by Sophocles; the
Alcestis
and the
Bacchae
by Euripides; the
Arffonautica
by Apollqnius;
Orpheus and Eurydice
by Virgil;
Cupid
and Psyche by Apuleius;
Hero and Leander
by Musaeus and the stories of Romulus and Tarquin and Horatius by Livy; contains maps, charts, 94 illustrations of myths; paperback.
Hamilton, Edith.
Mythology
. New York: The New American Library, 1940. This is a standard text on Greek mythology; though seen by some scholars to be inaccurate in her view of Greeks as creatures of light and reason; contains Norse myth section, genealogical tables, and 22 illustrations; paperback.
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The Greek Way
. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1932. Hamilton examines Pindar, Plato, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Greek religion and lifestyle; paperback.
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The Roman Way To Western Civilization
. New York:
The New American Library, 1963. Hamilton examines Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Augustus, Virgil, Livy, Seneca, Juvenal, the Stoics, and Roman religion and lifestyle; paperback.
Hesiod.
The Poems of Hesiod
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. A collection of two Greek poems, the Theoffony and Works and Days, which were composed ca. 700 B.C.; poems deal with the themes of divine creation by Zeus and the Greek concepts of work and justice; translation, introduction, and comments by R.M. Frazier; paperback.
Homer.
The Iliad
. New York: Anchor Press/ Doubleday. 1975 The epic poem of the Greek and Trojan battle over the kidnapping of Menelaus’s wife, Helen, by Paris; composed in 750-700 B.C. about events which happened ca. 1225 B.C.; translation by Robert Fitzgerald is considered the best; paperback.
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The Odyssey
. New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1963. An epic poem composed ca. 750-700 B.C. about the ten years of Odysseus’s travelings after the fall of Troy in his attempt to reach his home, Ithica; translation by Robert Fitzgerald; paperback.
Man and his symbols
. Ed. Carl Jung. London: Aldus Books Limited, 1964. This is a collection of psychological studies of the relation of modem people to the unconscious, ancient myths, the process of individuation, symbolism in visual arts, and symbols in analysis; pp. 104-157 especially significant for mythology; profuse with illustrations; hard cover.
Ovid.
The Metamorphoses
. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1958. A Roman poem, written ca. 2 A.D. in the time of Augustus; gives the Roman version of the Greek pantheon and a collection of romantic and adventure myths; contains glossary and index of Greek and Roman names; translated by Horace Gregory; paperback.
Renault, Mary.
The Kinff Must Die
. New York: Pocket Books, 1958. Renault retells the story of Theseus taken as a slave to Crete to become a bull dancer for the annual festival; contains author’s historical notes and the mythological legend of Theseus; paperback.
Rose, H.J.
A Handbook of Greek Mythology: Including Its Extension to Rome
. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1959. An indispensable reference work which includes variants of Greek and Roman myths; pronunciation index; paperback.
Shugert, Diane.
Unit: Creation of Comic Strip Narrative
. New Britain: Pulaski High School, 1979, This is a collection of lesson plans put together by a group of student teachers whose goal was to get low achievers to write their own comic strip based on the adventures of a super hero; booklet.
Simon, Sidney B., Howe, Leland W., Kirschenbaum, Howard.
Value Clarification: A Handbook of Practical Strateffies for Teachers and Students
. New York: Hart Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. This is a collection of teacher developed class and small group activities based on the theories of John Dewey and Louis Raths and aimed at letting students discover how they make decisions and develop values and judgements; contains 79 ready-to-use lesson plans; paperback.
The New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
. Hong Kong: Prometheus Press/ Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1968. A comprehensive survey of the mythologies of prehistoric times, Egypt, Assyria-Babylonia, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, Celtic culture, the Teutons, Slavic culture, Finno-Ugric culture, ancient Persia, India, China, Japan, North, Central, and South America, Mexico, the ocean, black Africa; approx. 600 illustrations with 32 color plates; introduction by Robert Graves; hard cover.
Virgil.
The Aeneid of Virffil
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951. The nationalistic epic poem of Rome written between 26-19 B.C.; translated by Rolfe Humphries; contains lists and descriptions of characters; paperback.
