Andrewes, Antony,
The Greeks
, W. W. Norton and Company, New York 1967.
A concise survey of Greek history, society, and culture.
Fitzgerald, Robert, tr.,
The Iliad of Homer
, Anchor Books, New York, 1974.
Griffin, Jasper,
Homer on Life and Death
, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980.
A clear and easy to read exploration of the poem and its worldview.
Lattimore, Richmond, tr.,
The Iliad of Homer
, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1951.
Lesky, Albin,
A History of Greek Literature
, translated by James Willis and Cornelia de Heer, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1966.
A comprehensive survey of Greek literature with many references to scholarly theories and abundant bibliography.
Luce, James T., ed.,
Ancient Writers
,
Greece and Rome.
Vol. I, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1982.
The section on Homer, by W.B. Stanford, is a good place to start and up-to-date bibliography.
Owen, E.T.,
The Story of the Iliad
, Oxford University Press, New York, 1947.
Why the
Iliad
is told as it is. A unitarian’s point of view.
Redfield, James M.,
Nature and Culture in the Iliad
:
The Tragedy of Hector
, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1975.
A structuralist reading.
Tripp, Edward,
The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology,
New American Library, New York, 1970.
A succinct summary of Greek and Roman mythology.
Weil, Simone,
The Iliad or the Poem of Force
, translated by Mary McCarthy, Wallingford, PA, Pendle Hill, 1956.
A stimulating Christian reading.
Whitman, C.H.,
Homer and the Homeric Tradition
, Cambridge, MA, 1965.
An existentialist interpretation, interesting to compare with Redfield.
Willcock, Malcolm M.,
A Companion to the Iliad
, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1976.
A clear guide to the text, keyed to Lattimore’s translation.