GREK 102: Introduction to Greek Poetry: Homer (HC)

                                     Achilles surrenders Briseis to Agamemnon, Roman, 1st century CE, Pompeii, House of the Tragic Poet,                                                           Naples National Archaeological Museum (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) 

Tripod often lists a translation under the author's name + translations :   

• homer [author]  AND  translations  [subject]               

The Oxford Bibliography Online essay on Homer recommends these translations. Those done by Wilson, Green, Fagles and Lattimore are verse translations.  Wilson's new work has been widely praised for its contemporary feel.  Murray's translations in the Loeb series are prose versions and can be relied on for literal accuracy:

• Homer. 1990. The Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles. Viking.           

• Homer. 1996. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles.  Viking.            

• Homer. 1951. The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press.            

• Homer. 1965. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press.            

• Homer. 2015. The Iliad. Translated by Peter Green. University of California Press.            

• Homer. 2018. The Odyssey. Translated by Peter Green. University of California Press.            

• Homer. 2017. The Odyssey. Translated by Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton.            

• Homer. 1999. Iliad. Translated by A. T. Murray; revised by W.F. Wyatt. Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University Press.            

• Homer. 1995. Odyssey. Translated by A. T. Murray; revised by G. E. Dimock. Loeb Classical Library.  Harvard University Press.

To find a text in English or Greek, search in Tripod, the tri-college library catalogs.             

You can search by:

• Author, Title or the two combined:   hesiod [author]  AND theogony [title]             

  I.  Standard Editions

1)  Loeb Classical Library             

A series of Greek and Latin texts with facing page English translations begun by James Loeb.  Now published by Harvard University Press but started in 1912 by the publisher William Heinemann.  The critical apparatus is minimal at best and can be supplemented by a more scholarly edition.  There are over 500 Loeb volumes.  They are available both in an online version and in print volumes.

Greek Loeb Volumes PA3611-PA3612 in green bindings  (Other copies shelved with individual authors.)

Digital Loeb Classical Library    (all volumes available online)            

2) Cambridge green and yellow series - Search: "Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics"            

3) Oxford Classical Texts - Search: "Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis"            

4) Teubner Series - Search: "Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana"            

Also a series of Ancient Greek and Latin texts with critical notes.  Teubner has been publishing longer than Oxford and has the greatest number of texts available in modern editions with extensive notes.  There are 1600 records in Tripod.