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MYTHOLOGY: Recommended Bibliography
Compiled by Tracy Marks,
Instructor of Greek Mythology classes at the
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
Posted at http://www.webwinds.com/myth/mythbib.htm
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GENERAL REFERENCES
SPECIAL INTEREST
ORIGINAL TEXTS
MODERN INTERPRETATIONS
GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL FICTION
GENERAL
REFERENCES
Bulfinch, Thomas, Bulfinch’s Mythology
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375751475/windweavwebandwi/
Hamilton, Edith, Mythology
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316341517/windweavwebandwi/
Grant, Michael, Myths of the Greeks and Romans
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452011620/windweavwebandwi/
Edinger, Edward, The Eternal Drama: The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570626731/windweavwebandwi/
Harris, Stephen and Platner, Gloria, Classical Mythology (brilliant work)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1559348267/windweavwebandwi/
Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140171991/windweavwebandwi/
Kerenyi, Carl, Gods of the Greeks
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500270481/windweavwebandwi/
Kerenyi, Carl, Heroes of the Greeks
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/050027049X/windweavwebandwi/
SPECIAL INTEREST
Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679733485/windweavwebandwi/
Carpenter, Art and Myth in Ancient Greece
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500202362/windweavwebandwi/
Lefkowitz, Mary, Women in Greek Myth
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801841089/windweavwebandwi/
Wood, Michael, In Search of the Trojan War
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520215990/windweavwebandwi/
ORIGINAL TEXTS
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, translated by Robert Fagles
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140443339/windweavwebandwi/
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, translated by Ted Hughes
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374527059/windweavwebandwi/
Apollodorus, The Library of Greek Mythology
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192839241/windweavwebandwi
Euripides, Ten Plays, translated by Moses Hadas
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553213636/windweavwebandwi/
Euripides, Ten Plays, translated by Paul Roche
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451527003/windweavwebandwi/
Hesiod, Theogony, translated by Caldwell
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0941051005/windweavwebandwi/
Homer, The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140275363/windweavwebandwi/
Homer, The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385059418/windweavwebandwi/
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140268863/windweavwebandwi/
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374525749/windweavwebandwi/
Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated by Mandelbaum
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156001268/windweavwebandwi/
Ovid, Tales from Ovid, translated by Ted Hughes
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374525870/windweavwebandwi/
MODERN INTERPRETATIONS
Bolen, Jean, Gods in EveryMan
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060972807/windweavwebandwi/
Bolen, Jean, Gods in Every Woman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006091291X/windweavwebandwi/
Campbell, Joseph, Myths to Live By
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140194614/windweavwebandwi/
Campbell, Joseph, Hero with a Thousand Faces
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691017840/windweavwebandwi/
Houston, Jean, The Hero and the Goddess (Odyssey)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345365674/windweavwebandwi/
Carlson, Kathie, Life’s Daughter, Death’s Bride (Persephone)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/087773903X/windweavwebandwi/
Downing, Christine, Goddess.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826409172/
Downing, Christine, The Long Journey Home (Persephone)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570626855/windweavwebandwi/
Paris, Ginette: Pagan Meditations (Artemis, Aphrodite)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0882143301/windweavwebandwi/
Wilk, Stephen, Medusa
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195124316/windweavwebandwi/
NOVELS BASED ON GREEK MYTHOLOGY
*Most recommended
For out of print books, search http://www.abebooks.com
Bauchau, Henry, Oedipus on the Road
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559703822/windweavwebandwi
*Bradley, Marion Zimmer, The Firebrand (Cassandra)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451459245/windweavwebandwi
Brindel, June, Ariadne
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789425866/windweavwebandwi
Cargill, Linda, To Follow the Goddess (Helen) YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0962725870/windweavwebandwi/
Cargill, Linda, Jason and Medea YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0880925485/windweavwebandwi
Concannon, Diana, Helen's Passage YOUNG ADULT
OUT OF PRINT
Cook, Elizabeth, Achilles - A Novel
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312288840/windweavwebandwi/
Cooney, Caroline, Goddess of Yesterday YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385729456/windweavwebandwi
Drawson, Blair, Daphne Speaks
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689829019/windweavwebandwi
Everett, Pervial, Frenzy (Dionysus) YOUNG ADULT
OUT OF PRINT
Franklin, Sarah, Daughter of Troy (Briseis) WARNING - RISQUE!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380793539/windweavwebandwi/
*Gardner, John, Jason and Medeia
OUT OF PRINT
Geras, Adelle, Troy
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0152045708/windweavwebandwi/
Golding, William, The Double Tongue
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374526370/windweavwebandwi
Graves, Robert, Hercules My Shipmate
OUT OF PRINT
Hoover, H.M., The Dawn Palace, the Story of Medea YOUNG ADULT
OUT OF PRINT
Hunter, Warwick, Persephone YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689506007/windweavwebandwi
Kazantazis, Nikos, The Odyssey
OUT OF PRINT
Kazantzakis, Nikos, At the Palaces of Knossos
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0821408801/windweavwebandwi/
Kindl, Patrice, Lost in the Labyrinth (YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/061816684X/windweavwebandwi
*Lagerkvist, Par, The Sibyl
OUT OF PRINT
*Lewis, C.S., Till We Have Faces (Cupid and Psyche)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156904365/windweavwebandwi
McLaren, Clemence, Waiting for Odysseus YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689828756/windweavwebandwi
McLaren, Clemence, Aphrodite's Blessing YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689843771/windweavwebandwi
McLaren, Clemence, Inside the Walls of Troy YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440227496/windweavwebandwi
McCullough, Colleen, Song of Troy
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752817639/windweavwebandwi/
McLaren, Clemence, Inside the Walls of Troy
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689318200/windweavwebandwi/
Napoli, Donna Jo, The Great God Pan YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385327773/windweavwebandwi
Napoli, Donna Jo, Sirena (the sirens) YOUNG ADULT
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0590383884/windweavwebandwi
Orgell, Doris, We Goddesses -Athena, Aphrodite and Hera YOUNG ADULT
OUT OF PRINT
Pressfield, Steven, Last of the Amazons
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038550098X/windweavwebandwi
Renault, Mary, The King Must Die (Theseus and Hippolyta)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394751043/windweavwebandwi/
Renault, Mary, The Bull from the Sea (Theseus)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394715047/windweavwebandwi/
Simmons, Dan, Ilium (Trojan War science fiction) NEW!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380978938/windweavwebandwi
Spinner, Stephanie, Quiver (Atalanta) CHILD
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375814892/windeavwebandwi
Sutcliff, Rosemary, Black Ships Before Troy CHILD
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385310692/windweavwebandwi
*Unsworth, Barry, Song of Kings NEW!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385501145/windweavwebandwi/
Wallin, Florence, According to Helen
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0965594807/windweavwebandwi
Wolf, Christa, Cassandra A Novel
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374519048/windweavwebandwi/
Wolf, Christa, Medea A Modern Retelling
OUT OF PRINT
Yolen, Jane, Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast CHILD
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006029454X/windweavwebandwi
Yolen, Jane, Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons CHILD
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060287365/windweavwebandwi
Yolen, Jane, Pegasus the Flying Horse CHILD
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0525652442/windweavwebandwi
Yolen, Jane, Wings (Icarus) CHILD
OUT OF PRINT
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