Literary Resources

The following links might be especially helpful to literature and humanities students:

• The Perseus Project: a digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. It includes ancient texts and translations, maps, art catalogues and essays on secondary topics like vase paintings.
• The Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion.
• The Voice of the Shuttle: a web site dedicated to research in the humanities.
• Livius: a non-commercial website on ancient history that offers articles on ancient history and lots of pictures.
• Carlos Parada's Greek Mythology Link: Parada , a visiting lecturer at the Department of Classics, Lund University (Sweden), has created an Internet site with free access to info on the Greek myths and related subjects.
  Ancient Greek sites on the web: a list of links to sites containing articles, maps, pictures and other resources.
• Odysseus Unbound: Modern day Ithaka doesn't look exactly the way Homer described it in the Odyssey. Some scholars speculate that Odysseys' home might have been on another island nearby.
• Diotima: a site devoted to the study of women and gender in the ancient world.
• The Voice of the Shuttle: a web site dedicated to research in the humanities.
• The Free E-Book Library: 1,800 publicly-available ebooks in web, MS Reader and Palm format.
• Project Gutenberg: a searchable web site that lists and provides links to hundreds of texts that have entered public domain and can thus be downloaded free of charge. Texts are available in .txt format, .zip files, and/or via ftp.

Here are some secondary texts you might also want to look at:

• The Greek Myths by Robert Graves. A two-volume set that summarizes the best known myths of the ancient world. You can read more about it at Amazon.com. You can also find it in the CWU library.
• The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell. This four-volume set is probably Campbell's best known, most authoritative study on comparative mythology. For our class, I highly recommend the first three chapters of Volume Two, Oriental Mythology, as well as chapters one, two and four of Volume Three, Occidental Mythology. These are also available in the CWU Library.
• Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by Amy Kelley. A good friend of Marie de France, Eleanor would surely have been in the original audience for the story of Eleduc. This biography of her shows her to be one of the most influential women in history. Central's library has it.
• The Elizabethan World Picture by E.M.W. Tillyard. If you really want to get inside the head of the original reader of Hamlet, or even Sir Gawain, this book is for you. Read a little more about it, then check it out of Central's library.