Greek and Roman Mythology Index

Primary Sources

Agamemnon by Aeschylus, (reread)

Antigone by Sophocles,

Choephori by Aeschylus, 

Electra by Sophocles,

Eumenides by Aeschylus,

Medea by Euripides,

Medea by Seneca,

Metamorphoses by Ovid,

Oedipus by Seneca, 

Oedipus the King by Sophocles,

Orestes by Euripides, 

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, 

The Bakkhai by Euripides,

The Histories by Herodotus, (*)

The Iliad by Homer ,

The Odyssey by Homer ,

The Oresteia by Aeschylus, 

Theogony by Hesiod,  

Modern Retellings

An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson,

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch ,

Circe by Madeline Miller, 

Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations edited by Robert W. Corrigan, 

Classics Illustrated: The Odyssey: Illustrated by Harley M. Griffiths ,

First There Was Chaos: Hesiod's Story of Creation by Joel Priddy,

Ilium by Dan Simmons ,

Mythology by Edith Hamilton,

Olympos by Dan Simmons ,

Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang--addendum ,

The Golden Fleece by Robert Graves ,

The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology by Robin Hard,

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller,

The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge, 

Movies and TV

Aeschylus' Oresteia, 1983 Television version, directed by Peter Hall: Review,

Antigone (1961),

Medea by Euripides freely adapted by Robinson Jeffers (TV Movie, 1983), 

Oedipus Rex (1957), 

Oedipus the King (1968), 

The Theban Plays by Sophocles the BBC, 1986,

(*) Herodotus is mostly history, but does contain some mythology mixed in with the history.

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