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• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)

• Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Homer: The Poetry of the Past (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Andrew Laughlin Ford (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by James Joseph Clauss (HTML at UC Press)
• The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Laura M. Slatkin (HTML at UC Press)
• The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic, by Douglas Frame (HTML at Harvard)
• The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homerische Untersuchungen (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1916), by Jacob Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)
• Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homeric Questions, by Gregory Nagy (HTML at stoa.org)

• Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Hesiod and Homer, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library edition; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Hesiod and Homer, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Authoress of the Odyssey (second edition, 1922), by Samuel Butler (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• A Complete Concordance to the Odyssey and Hymns of Homer; To Which is Added a Concordance to the Parallel Passages in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Hymns (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1880), by Henry Dunbar
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Odyssey, Abridged (third edition, c2012), by Homer, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Iliad, Abridged (c2008), by Homer, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Iliad (second edition, 2007), by Homer, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Odyssey (third edition, 2010), by Homer, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Iliad, by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg text)
• The Iliad, by Homer, trans. by Walter Leaf, Andrew Lang, and Ernest Myers (Gutenberg text)
• The Iliad, by Homer, ed. by Theodore Alois Buckley, trans. by Alexander Pope, illust. by John Flaxman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Iliad, by Homer, trans. by A. T. Murray (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Iliad of Homer, Books IX and X (in Greek, with English notes; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1902), by Homer, ed. by J. C. Lawson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse, by Homer, trans. by Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley Derby (Gutenberg text)
• The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, Never Before in Any Language Truly Translated, With a Comment on Some of His Chief Places (third edition, 2 volumes; London: J. R. Smith, 1888), by Homer, ed. by Richard Hooper, trans. by George Chapman
  • both volumes; HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (English-language portion only), ed. by Douglas B. Killings, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, contrib. by Hesiod and Homer (Gutenberg text)
• The Odyssey, by Homer, trans. by A. T. Murray (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Odyssey of Homer, by Homer, trans. by Alexander Pope (Gutenberg text)
• The Odyssey of Homer, Done Into English Prose, by Homer, trans. by S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Odyssey, Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original, by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg text)
• The Odysseys of Homer, by Homer, trans. by George Chapman (HTML at Bartleby)

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