- Life of Adam and Eve: Introduction
- Life of Adam and Eve: Resources
- Apocalypse of Moses: Introduction
- Apocalypse of Moses: Resources
Early Greek Literature
Homer
- The geography of Odysseus’ travels
- What translation of the Iliad is the best?
- Dating of Homer
- How sure are we that Homer was blind?
- Why wasn’t the Iliad written down for so long?
- Did the character of Achilles exist before the Iliad?
- Are there any records of a romantic relationship between Achilles and Patroclus?
- Achilleus’ scene in Odyssey 11 and its (lack of) connection to the Iliad
- What was it like to hear Homer performing a story?
- Did Gilgamesh influence the Iliad and Odyssey?
- Did Homer have melody?
- The evolving nature of Homer’s audience through the centuries
Homeric World
- Why does Homeric religion look more classical Greek than Mycenaean?
- Bathing a guest and rubbing them with oil
- Where was Odysseus located in the Greek political or social hierarchy?
- Does λύσσα mean ‘wolf-fury’?
- What would have happened to Odysseus if Penelope had married one of her suitors?
- What breed of dog is Argos?
- What factors affected whether Penelope chose to remarry or not?
- Did ‘Aithiopians’ in Homer include sub-Saharan people?
- What were the ‘murderous signs’ of Bellerophon in Homer’s Iliad?
Legendary Wars
- Did the Trojan War happen?
- Was the Trojan horse a siege engine?
- Bronze Age elements in Theban legend
Other early poems
- Were the Cyclic and Theban epics lost on purpose?
- Did the author of Daniel know Hesiod?
- Why does Hesiod say that Atalanta avoided marriage with men who eat bread?
- Are there any poems that retell the lost poems of the Epic Cycle?
- Are there literary versions of the story of Odysseus’ inland journey with the oar?
The Bronze Age through the lens of classical-era myth
- Is Odysseus a memory of the Sea Peoples?
- Does Homer contain accurate descriptions of Bronze Age objects?
- What Bronze Age history can we extract from Homer?
- How did we learn that the Bronze Age collapse was a real thing and not just a myth?
- Why is there no names of any Mycenaean kings outside Greek mythology?
- Does Iman Wilkens have a point about Homer and the Trojan War?
- Are any Homeric characters attested in evidence contemporary to the supposed timeframe the events to?
- What do we really know about the Bronze Age Collapse?
- In the Bronze Age, was it preferable to capture and ransom charioteers?
Troy
Ancient Greece Scholarly Books
- General
- Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600 to 1200 BCE)
- Dark Age and Archaic Period (1200 to 479 BCE)
- Classical Period (479 to 323 BCE)
- Hellenistic Period (323 to 31 BCE)
- Greece under Rome (146 BCE to 395 CE)
- Athens and Athenian Democracy
- Sparta
- Greek Warfare
- Society and Economy of Ancient Greece
- Byzantine Empire (395 to 1453 CE)
- A Hittite tablet recounting the Trojan War