Categories: Introductions - Texts - Recordings - Maps - Iliad - Images - Archaeology - Miscellany - General Greek Resources - Writing Resources

• Library Resource Page

Introductions to Homer and Homeric Society

• The Homer Homepage (warning: many of the links no longer work, but there is still much useful information)
• Chronology of Bronze and Homeric Ages (Reed College)
• The Mythological Background of Homer's Iliad by John Porter
• Plot Outline for Homer's Iliad and List of Principal Characters by John Porter
• The Iliad as Oral Formulaic Poetry by John Porter
• The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age by John Porter
• Homeric Society by John Porter
• The Homeric Gods by John Porter
• A brief summary of the Iliad and its principal characters.

Texts & Search Engines

• Greek
• Perseus Project: also contains commentary by Benner 1903 and W. Leaf 1900.
• Downloadable full texts of Iliad and Odyssey (via Mikros Apoplous, .zip format)
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: The preferred textual search engine for scholarly research on Greek language and literature. The Thesaurus of the Greek Language contains virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453.
• English Translations
  • Murray's 1924 Loeb (Perseus Project)
  • Samuel Butler (Perseus Project)
• The Chicago Homer: a multilingual database that includes all the texts of ancient Greek epic in the original Greek, and English and German translations, including Lattimore's translation of the Iliad and the German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johan Heinrich Voss.
• Venetus A: digital images of the Comparetti's 1901 facsimile edition of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad, which contains the D-Scholia (ancient commentary on the Iliad)

Recordings

• Stanley Lombardo (Kansas): Iliad, Book I
• Carolyn Higbie (Buffalo): Iliad 1.457-463 and Iliad 6.466-475
• Gregory Nagy (Harvard): Iliad 1.1-16, and two alternative openings to the Iliad, Iliad 9.307-429, Iliad 18.478-519, Iliad 24.468-516.
• Stephen G. Daitz (City University of New York): Iliad, 1.1-52 read in the restored pronunciation of classical Greek.
• Rodney Merril: Odyssey 1.1-10

Iliad

• A list of deaths in the Iliad.

Maps

• Geographical Origins of the Major Contingents in the Catalogue of Ships presented in Google Earth [N.B. you must install Google Earth in order to view the Catalogue of Ships].
• Major locations in the Iliad (Reed College)

Archaeology of Troy

• Project Troia: Troia and the Troad-Archaeology of a Region: official website of the current excavations under the direction of the Universities of Tubingen and Cincinnati.
• Controversy over Late Bronze Age Troia (Troia VI and VII): an account of the debate between Profs. Kolb and Korfmann over the size and significance of Bronze Age Troy.
• Was There a Trojan War? by noted archaeologist Manfred Korfmann, discusses recent excavations at Troy (Archaeology Magazine, May/June 2004).
• Aerial view of Troy as it exists today.
• Bird's eye reconstruction of the Bronze Age Troy.
• Troia VR: close-up reconstructions of several excavated areas at Troy.
• Dissenting Views--Arguing that Troy is not in Turkey
  • Iman Wilkens's site promoting the (wildly incorrect) theory that Troy stood in Cambridgeshire, England.
  • A site proposing that the events in Homer transpired along Croatia's Dalmatian Coast.

Images of Homer: Paintings, Busts, Mosaics

• The Trojan War in Ancient Art: a chronological survey of the myth using artwork.
• Various busts of Homer
• Mosiac of Calliope and Homer, 3rd century CE; National Museum of History and Art, Luxemburg
• Select Paintings
  • Raphael, Mount Parnassus, 1510-11; Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican [Detail of Homer]
  • Rembrandt, Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer, 1653; Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Rembrandt, Homer, 1663; Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague
  • Alma-Tadema, A Reading from Homer, 1885; Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The Apotheosis of Homer, 1827; Louvre, Paris
  • Adolphe William Bouguereau, Homer and his Guide, 1874
  • Salvador Dali, Apotheosis of Homer, 1944-45
  • Ante Wessels, Homer, 1996.

Troy in the News

• Review of Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd (Sunday Herald, 9/3/06).
• "Iliad, Odyssey Penned by Woman": a report on Andrew's Dalby's take on an old idea (Discovery News, 8/28/06); Dalby has been debating his book with a Bryn Mawr graduate student [first post] [second post].
• Troy Has Fallen: a review of the motion picture Troy (2004) and several contempary documentaries (Archaeology Magazine, 5/14/04).
• Achilles at the Gates: an interview with Eric Shanower, artist of the graphic novels Age of Bronze (Archaeology Magazine, 4/19/2004).
• A review of Christopher Logue's continuing project to re-imagine the Trojan War in modern verse (Slate, May 13, 2003).

Miscellany

• Collection of poems by various authors inspired by the Iliad and Odyssey.
• Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon: Homer on Military Leadership, a paper delivered at the Pentagon.

General Resources for Learning Greek

• Online Greek Grammar Learning Tools and Study Aids (Institute of Biblical Greek)
• Greek Help (via LSU)
Vocabulary
• The 50% list: 65 words which make up half of all Greek!
• The 80% list (= Core Vocabulary for the two-year program): 1,100 words which make up 80% of all Greek.  Find out more!
• Principal parts of all verbs in the Core Vocabulary.  Also available in separate files by type:
• vowel stems: including contract verbs
• labial stems: stems in b, m, p, and pt
• dental stems: stems in d, z, th, and s
• palatal stems: stems in g, k, kh, and  and tt/ss
• liquid stems: stems in l, m, n, and r
• mixed stems: verbs which display radical stem change
• -mi verbs: everybody's favoriate athematic Greek verbs!
• Compound verbs: 60 verbs which compound to form 157 additional verbs from the Core Vocabulary
• Verbs with contract futures: 35 verbs which have contract futures
• Verbs with deponent futures: 33 verbs which have deponent futures
• Deponent verbs: 28 deponent verbs from the Core Vocabulary
• Verbs with a second (strong) aorist: 36 verbs with a second aorist from the Core Vocabulary
• Nouns in the Core Vocabulary by declension and stem type
• Adjectives in the Core Vocabulary by declension and stem type
• Greek Grammar Pages
• Verbs of saying: a chart of Greek verbs of saying in each tense
• Verbs of coming and going: a chart Greek verbs of coming and going by tense
• Verbs of seeing and knowing: a chart Greek verbs of seeing and knowing by tense
• Personal Pronouns: an outline of personal pronouns and possessive adjectives
• Prepositions and Prefixes: an outline of the forms of prepositions which also serve as prefixes to verbs
• Proclitics: one page covers all ten proclitics
• Enclitics: one page covers all the enclitics in Greek
• General Conditions: a handy succinct overview of conditions in Greek

Writing Resources

• How to write in polytonic (ancient) Greek in Mac OS X (Sam Tucker, Reed College)
• How to write in polytonic (ancient) Greek in Windows 2000/XP
• Guide to Research Papers and Presentations in Clasåsics
• Guide to Citing Sources in Classics
• Combination Search page for most on-line, non-subscription Classics resources (via Univ. Kentucky)
• Summary of Chicago Style for Citations
• Resources for Writing Academic Papers