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• The Ears of Hermes: Communication, Images, and Identity in the Classical World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011), by Maurizio Bettini, trans. by William Michael Short (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Endless Fountain: Essays on Classical Humanism (in honor of Clarence A. Forbes; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), ed. by Mark P. O. Morford (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Idea of the Labyrinth From Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Penelope Reed Doob (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Lectures on Classical Subjects (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by William Ross Hardie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Greek and Roman Ghost Stories (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1902), by Lacy Collison-Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Historische Werke (15 volumes in German; 1821-1828), by A. H. L. Heeren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Supernatural in Ancient Poetry and Story: A Lecture, Delivered to the Aberdeen University Classical Society on 15th February, 1901 (Edinburgh: J. Thin, 1901), by William Ross Hardie
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• Illustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classical, by John D. Quackenbos (Gutenberg ebook)

• Profession and Performance: Aspects of Oratory in the Greco-Roman World (London: University of London, c2013), ed. by Christos Kremmydas, J. G. F. Powell, and Lene Rubinstein (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Die Denkmäler zum Theaterwesen im Altertum (in German; Berlin and Leipzig: Vereinigung Wissenschaftlicher Verleger, 1920), by Margarete Bieber
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• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Symbolism of the House Door in Classical Poetry (New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1950), by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corneille, Tasso, and Modern Poetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by A. Donald Sellstrom (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients, by John Ogilvie, contrib. by Wallace Jackson (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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 Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Familiar Studies in Homer, by Agnes M. Clerke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey, by W. Lucas Collins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3: I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer., by W. E. Gladstone (Gutenberg ebook)
• Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3: Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age, by W. E. Gladstone (Gutenberg ebook)
• Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3: I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races, by W. E. Gladstone (Gutenberg ebook)
• The World of Homer, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg ebook)
• Homer's Odyssey: A Commentary, by Denton Jaques Snider (Gutenberg ebook)

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

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• Sanskrit and its kindred literatures. Studies in comparative mythology. (Boston, Roberts brothers, 1890), by Laura Elizabeth Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Et́udes de litteŕature ancienne et etrangère / (Paris : Didier, 1857), by M. Villemain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angeli Decembrii Mediolanensis, oratoris clariss. De politia literaria libri septe[m] : multa & uaria eruditione referti : ante annos centum scripti, & nunc tandem ab infinitis mendis repurgati, atque omnino rediuiui ; accessit quoq[ue] rerum & verborum memorabilium index. (Basileae : Per Ioannem Heruagium, anno 1562), by Angelo Decembrio, Johann Herwagen, and Celio Augustino Curione (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du génie des peuples anciens, ou, Tableau historique et littéraire du développement de l'esprit humain chez les peuples anciens, depuis les premiers temps connus jusqu'au commencement de l'ère chrétienne. (Paris, Maradan, 1808), by Madame de Chastenay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die literaturen Westasiens und die Nilländer. (Freiburg im Breisgau : Herder, 1897), by Alexander Baumgartner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Westwind. (San Francisco.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible echoes in ancient classics (Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1878), by Craufurd Tait Ramage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Textes et études de littérature ancienne et médiévale. (Florence, Chez l'auteur, 1921), by Mario Esposito (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essais de politique et de littérature / (Paris : M. Lévy, 1863), by Lucien Anatole Prévost-Paradol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tables of ancient literature and history. (Glasgow : J. Maclehose, 1877), by John Nichol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afhandlinger og artikler. (København, Gyldendal, 1919), by Jacob Peter Jacobsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johann Friderich Christ, ehemaligen öffentlichen Lehrers der Dichtkunst auf der Universität zu Leipzig, Abhandlungen über die Litteratur und Kunstwerke vornemlich des Alterthums / (Leipzig : Bey Ulrich Christian Saalbach, 1776), by Johann Friedrich Christ and Johann Carl Zeune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la littérature ancienne et moderne / (Paris : Th.Ballimore ; Genève : Cherbulieiz, 1829), by Friedrich von Schlegel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sanskrit and its kindred literatures Studies in comparative mythology. (Boston, Roberts brothers, 1880), by Laura Elizabeth Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated history of ancient literature : oriental and classical / (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1883, c1878), by John D. Quackenbos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religio grammatici; the religion of a man of letters (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1918), by Gilbert Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories from the classic literature of many nations, (New York, The Macmillan company' London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1898), by Bertha Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religio grammatici : the religion of a "man of letters", being a presidential address to the Classical Association on Jan. 8, 1918 / (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1918), by Gilbert Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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