Additional Reading for The Odyssey

by Homer

The Iliad: Tells the story of the war at Troy and is the prequel to The Odyssey. There are many translations of this and The Odyssey available. Robert Fagles has translated and published both poems.

by Others

For Younger Students:

The Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: These are retellings of some of the Greek myths by one of America's greatest writers.

"The Paradise of Children" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. From Hawthornes's second book of retellings of the Greek myths. This one is about Pandora. Available to print on this site here.

The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War by Emily Little This tells the story of the war at Troy. My only complaint about it is that it never mentions Achilles, a major character in that war. ISBN: 0394896742 Buy this Edition at Amazon.com

Ancient Greece: Modern Rhymes About Ancient Times by Susan Altman and Susan Lechner. A fun book that dispenses information about Ancient Greece in the form of poems that rhyme. ISBN: 0516273736 Buy this Edition at Amazon.com