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• Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Peter W. Rose (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Authors of Greece, by T. W. Lumb (Gutenberg text)
• Essays on Greek Literature (London: Macmillan, 1909), by Robert Yelverton Tyrrell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Greek Genius and its Influence: Select Essays and Extracts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917), ed. by Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Three Literary Letters (Ep. ad Ammaeum I, Ep. ad Pompeium, Ep. ad Ammaeum II): The Greek Text Edited with English Translation, Facsimile, Notes, Glossary of Rhetorical and Grammatical terms, Bibliography, and Introductory Essay on Dionysius as a Literary Critic (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1901), by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ed. by W. Rhys Roberts
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Acting like Men: Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Karen Bassi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ugly Productions: An Aesthetics of Greek Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2025), by A. C. Duncan (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Sense of History in Greek and Shakespearean Drama (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), by Tom F. Driver (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Baccho ab Alexandri Aetate in Asia Minore Culto (dissertation in Latin, with Greek quotations; 1912), by Wilhelm Quandt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Greek Studies: A Series of Essays, by Walter Pater (Gutenberg text)
• Das Theater von Priene, als Einzelanlage und in Seiner Bedeutung für das Hellenistische Bühnenwesen (in German; Munich et al.: F. Schmidt, 1921), by Armin von Gerkan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Helene P. Foley (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Wilfred E. Major (PDF at Ohio State)
• De Doriensium Comoedia Quaestiones (Vol. I (no more published), in Latin; 1828), by Karl Joseph Grysar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1986), by Charles Segal (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Tragedy, Translation and Theory: In Honor of Thomas J. McCall (2014), ed. by Cathy Caruth, contrib. by Tom McCall (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)
• The Birth of Tragedy: or, Hellenism and Pessimism (from the Complete Works v1), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by William A. Haussmann
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian Johnston
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• Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)

• Tragic Effects: Ethics and Tragedy in the Age of Translation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Therese Augst (PDF at Ohio State)

• Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c1996), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, 1984), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Myths of Fiction: Studies in the Canonical Greek Novels (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Edmund P. Cueva (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the Greek Romances (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1943), by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Die Griechische Novelle: Rekonstruktion ihrer Literarischen Form (in German; Halle A.S.: M. Niemeyer, 1913), by Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Form of the Ancient Greek Letter: A Study in Greek Epistolography (dissertation; Washington: Catholic University of America, 1923), by Francis Xavier J. Exler (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ (5 volumes in 2 divisions; T. and T. Clark, 1890), by Emil Schürer, trans. by John Macpherson, Sophia Taylor, and Peter Christie (all volumes, and volumes from other editions: page images at HathiTrust)

• Poètes Grecs Contemporains (in French; Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1881), by Juliette Adam
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  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reden und Vorträge (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1901), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
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• Reden und Vorträge (third edition, in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1913), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lyra Graeca: Being the Remains of All the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus, Excepting Pindar (Loeb Classical Library series edition, in Greek and English: 3 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922-1927), ed. by J. M. Edmonds
  • Volume I (including Terpander; Alcman; Sappho; Alcaeus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (including Stesichorus; Ibycus; Anacreon; Simonides): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (including Corinna; Bacchylides; Timotheus; Anonymous Fragments; Folk-Songs; Scolia; An Account of Greek Lyric Poetry): multiple formats at archive.org

• In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia (Hellenic Studies 80; Washington: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020), by Brian P. Sowers (HTML with commentary at Harvard)
• Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets (New York: J. Miller, 1864), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• 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
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• 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)
• The World of Homer (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910), by Andrew Lang
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

• Pseudo Hecataeus, "On the Jews": Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Bezalel Bar-Kochva (HTML at UC Press)
• A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ (5 volumes in 2 divisions; T. and T. Clark, 1890), by Emil Schürer, trans. by John Macpherson, Sophia Taylor, and Peter Christie (all volumes, and volumes from other editions: page images at HathiTrust)

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