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ColgateX: GW101x Greeks at War: Homer at Troy

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Greeks at War Learning Resources

The materials presented here should help you navigate the topics of our course. These links can also be found in your course content in the Getting Started section, where we present even more detailed additional resources. 

COURSE "REQUIRED" READING LIST

Readings (PDF)

Texts

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Primary texts  

      • The Iliad of Homer - public domain - Murray translation 1924

        • Provided in the course under the Textbook tab and excerpted in our module readings 
        • External Links

        • The Odyssey - public domain - Murray translation 

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    Alternative text -  

      • The Iliad of Homer - Lattimore translation
        • This is the text preferred by Professor Garland and sometimes used in his course talks, but this translation is not available freely in the public domain. 

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    Additional PUBLIC Resources

    You may find these useful to develop a better understanding of the context of this course. 

    The Internet Classics Archive

    A compilation of mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all translated into English. The website features a total of 441 works by 59 different authors, including Butler’s 1898 translation of the Iliad.

    Perseus Digital Library

    Features Greek and Roman material, both primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome including Murray’s 1924 translation of the Iliad and Butler’s 1898 translation.

    Troy

    An educational website about ancient Troy. A collaboration between the University of Cincinnati's CERHAS (Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites) and the Troia Projekt of the University of Tübingen, Germany.

    Mapping the Catalogue of Ships

    This website maps the arrangement and movement of the contingents in the Greek expedition to Troy. 

    Links for Homer

    A compilation of links to various resources on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

    Moebio Labs: The Iliad

    Summaries of each chapter of the Iliad, including links to the actual, full-length chapters. It also displays a network of all the characters, briefly describing the connections between each, and a word cloud showing the number of times each character is mentioned in a chapter.

    Timeline of Art History for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

    From the Metropolitan Museum.

    Pelagios

    Map-based tool for discovery of online resources on ancient world sites.

    Ancient World Mapping Center

    At UNC-Chapel Hill, several different mapping tools and collections of downloadable maps.

    Index of Cartographic Images illustrating maps from the Ancient Period: 6,200 B.C. to 400 A.D.

    A fairly large list, last updated in 1998 with some broken links.

    AWOL - The Ancient World Online

    Blog maintained by the Classics Librarian at Penn State

    Homer's Trojan Theater

    'This project takes the text of the Iliad as its script, paying particular attention to spatial indications such as for example "left" and "right," and attempts to reconstruct the activity on the battlefield with the help of digital technology.'

    Theoi Project

    Theoi Project, 'a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art'