General Histories.
Cox: General History of Greece.
Smith: Smaller History of Greece.
Felton: Ancient and Modern Greece.
Yonge: Young Folks’ History of Greece.
Grote: History of Greece (12 vols.).
Curtius: History of Greece (5 vols.); translated from the German, by A. W. Ward.
J. A. St. John: Ancient Greece.
Mythology.
Dwight: Grecian and Roman Mythology.
Murray: Manual of Mythology.
Keightley: Classical Mythology.
Gladstone: Juventus Mundi.
Ruskin: The Queen of the Air.
Cox: Tales of Ancient Greece.
Kingsley: The Greek Heroes.
Hawthorne: The Wonder Book.
—— Tanglewood Tales.
Miscellaneous.
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Chapman’s translation is the best. Of the later versions, that of Lord Derby is preferable.
Church: Stories from Homer.
Butcher and Lang’s prose translation of the Odyssey.
Collins: The Iliad and the Odyssey (two volumes of “Ancient Classics for English Readers”).
Gladstone: Homer.
De Quincey: Homer and the Homeridæ (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
Fénelon: Telemachus (translated by Hawkesworth).
Benjamin: Troy.
Goethe: Iphigenia in Tauris (drama, Swanwick’s translation).
The student of this period is referred also to Dr. Schliemann’s works: Ilios, Troja, and Mykenai.
Church: Stories from Herodotus.
Swayne: Herodotus (Ancient Classics).
Brugsch Bey: History of Egypt.
Freeman: Historical Essays (2d series).
Ebers: Uarda (romance, descriptive of Egyptian life and manners fourteen centuries before Christ).
—— The Daughter of an Egyptian King (five centuries before Christ).
Smith: Student’s History of the East.
Cox: The Greeks and the Persians.
Abbott: The History of Darius the Great.
—— The History of Xerxes the Great.
Sankey: The Spartan Supremacy.
Bulwer: Pausanias the Spartan (romance, 475 B.C.).
Glover: Leonidas (epic poem).
Croly: The Death of Leonidas (poem).
Robert Browning: Pheidippides (poem in “Dramatic Idyls”).
Lloyd: The Age of Pericles (fifth century before Christ).
Cox: The Athenian Empire.
Landor: Pericles and Aspasia (in “Imaginary Conversations”).
Mrs. L. M. Child: Philothea (romance of the time of Pericles).
Curteis: The Macedonian Empire.
Abbott: The History of Alexander the Great.
Butcher: Demosthenes (Classical Writers).
Greenough: Apelles and his Contemporaries (a romance of the time of Alexander).
Dryden: Alexander’s Feast (poem).
Bickersteth: Caubul (poem).
Literature.