Recommended Reading—Homeric Epics

Read chapters from "core" texts before reviewing study questions.

Core Reading Assignments
Book Title	Selected Chapters (# chapters)
Lang - The Iliad	entire book
Lang - The Odyssey	entire book
Church - The Iliad for Boys and Girls	entire book
Church - The Odyssey for Boys and Girls	entire book
Supplemental Reccomendations
Haaren - Famous Men of Greece	Agamemnon to The Adventures of Ulysses (3)
Guerber - The Story of the Greeks	The Childhood of Paris to The Burning of Troy (6)
Macgregor - The Story of Greece	Achilles and Briseis to The Bow of Odysseus (10)
Baldwin - A Story of the Golden Age of Greek Heroes	The Golden Apple to The Long Siege (14)
Baldwin - Thirty More Famous Stories Retold	The Fall of Troy to Penelope's Web (2)
Peabody - Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew	Stories of the Trojan War to Adventures of Odysseus (3)
Harding - Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men	Achilles and the Trojan War to The Wanderings of Odysseus (2)
Shaw - Stories of the Ancient Greeks	The Shepherd Prince of Troy to The Wanderer's Return (8)
Tappan - Old World Hero Stories	Homer (1)
Morris - Historical Tales: Greek	How Troy was Taken (1)
Church - Stories from the Greek Tragedians	Iphigenia in Aulis (1)