Troy -- works about or inspired by the Trojan War

Troy, with 35 books about or inspired by the Trojan War, includes works by Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil, Shakespeare, Goethe, Lessing, Kleist, and Hawthorne.

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Homer

• Iliad
• translated to English by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• translated by Alexander Pope
• translated by Edward Earl of Derby
• L'Iliade, translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l"isle
• Odyssey
• translated to English by Alexander Pope
• translated to English by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
• Stories from the Odyssey, retold by H.L. Havell
• L'Odyssee, translated to French by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de l'Isle
• The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Samuel Butler
• Homeric Hymns translated by Andrew Lang

Hesiod

• Hesiod, Homeric Hymns and Homerica, in English, including:
• Works and Days
• Theogony
• Catalogues of Women
• Shield of Heracles
• Homeric Hymns
• Epigrams of Homer

Quintus of Smyrna

• The Fall of Troy, in English

Collections and books about Greek literature

• Authors of Greece by T.W. Lumb
• Old Greek Folk Stories told anew by Josephine Prester Peabody, 1897
• Specimens of Greek Tragedy, translated by Goldwin Smith, 1893, includes:
• Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
• The Persians by Aeschylus
• The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
• Agamemnon by Aeschylus
• The Choephoroe [Libation Bearers] by Aeschylus
• The Eumenides [Furies] by Aeschylus
• Oedipus by Sophocles
• Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
• Antigone by Sophocles
• Ajax by Sophocles
• Electra by Sophocles
• Trachiniae by Sophocles
• Philoctetes by Sophocles
• Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church

Aeschylus

• The House of Atreus translated by E.D.A. Morshead, including:
• Agamemnon
• The Libation Bearers
• The Furies
• Four Plays translated by E.D.A. Morshead, including:
• The Suppliant Women
• The Persians
• The Seven Against Thebes
• Prometheus Bound

Sophocles

• The Oedipus Trilogy, includes:
• Oediups the King, in English
• Oedipus at Colonnus, translated to English by F. Storr
• Antigone, in English
• Seven Plays, translated by Lewis Campbell
• Antigone
• Aias
• King Oedipus
• Electra
• The Trachinian Madiens
• Philoctetes
• Oedipus at Colonus

Euripides

• Tragedies, volume 1, translated by Theodor Buckley
• Hecuba
• Oreses
• Phoenissae
• Medea
• Hippolytus
• Alcestis
• Bacchae
• Heraclidae
• Iphigenia in Aulide
• Iphigenia in Tauris

Virgil

• Aeneid
• in English
• in Latin
• about Virgil
Vergil, a biography by Tenney Frank

Bulfinch's Mythology:

• The Age of Fable

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

• Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Court of Love
• The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
• The Assembly of Fowls
• The Flower and the Leaf
• The House of Fame
• Troilus and Cressida
• Chaucer's Dream
• The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
• Chaucer's A.B.C.
• Miscellaneous Poems
• About Chaucer
• Chaucer's Official Life by Jame Root Hulbert
• Life of Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

• Dr. Faustus (play)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• Troilus and Cressida

Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781)

• Laokoon, in German

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

• Iphigenia in Tauris
• in German
• in English
Faust
• Part 1, in English
• Part 1, in German
• Part 2, in German
• translated by Charles Brooks
• translated by Bayard Taylor
• Untersuchungen ueber Goethes Faust edited by J. Collin

Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)

• Penthesilea, in German

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

• Tanglewood Tales

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

• Helen of Troy (poem)
• Tales of Troy

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

• Helen of Troy and Other Poems

M. Clarke

• The Story of Troy