A MIX OF THE SERIOUS AND SILLY—AND IN-BETWEEN
- Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (Odyssey)
- Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Iliad)
- David Malouf, Ransom (Iliad)
- Madeline Miller, Circe (as of 9/21/2018 on the NYTimes bestsellers list) (Odyssey)
- _______________, The Song of Achilles (Iliad)
- Other historical (or mythological) novels related to ancient Greece (Note: contrary to what the author of the site implies, the Homeric epics are not novels.)
- Age of Bronze (graphic novels based on the Homeric epics)
- Language Learning Strategies and Tools
—not all suggestions apply to ancient languages, since they are no longer spoken, but many do. - Troy (excavations and reconstructions, University of Cincinnati)
- Harvard Classics Poetry and Prose Recital Site
- Iliad with pitch (S. Daitz) (not for the faint of heart)
- Yugoslavian guslar Avdo Kino reciting oral poetry (his own, not Homer’s), (The Milman Parry Archives, Harvard University) (requires even more courage)
- Historians Admit to Inventing the Ancient Greeks (The Onion)
- Homeric Singing (Georg Danek, Univ. of Vienna, Dept. of Classical Philology and Stefan Hagel, Austrian Academy of Sciences) (not universally accepted)
- For excellent help in learning Latin go to Ben Johnson’s website Latin Tutorial.