This is a very small selection from a vast number of publications.  Books published within the last decade are good sources for earlier works.  I will keep adding more titles from time to time.

I have also provided links to various on-line bibliographies.  One of the best places to go is the web site maintained by the Classics department at the University of Kentucky.  You should also check out Diotima, an excellent source of material on gender and much else.

The most comprehensive Classics site is Perseus, with texts, images, bibliographies, an encyclopedia, and more.

Feel free to consult with me about which sources are likely to be most useful.

Greek and Roman Religion

Dodds, E. R., The Greeks and the Irrational, Berkeley 1951
Guthrie, W. K. C., The Greeks and their Gods, London 1950
Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, The Justice of Zeus, Berkeley 1971
Mikalson, Jon, Athenian Popular Religion, Chapel Hill/London 1983
Price, Simon, Religions of the Ancient Greeks, Cambridge 1999
Zaidman, L. B., and Pantel, P. S., Religion in the Ancient Greek City, Paris 1989 (trans. P. Cartledge, Cambridge/New York 1992)

Greek Drama

For Greek drama see the excellent bibliography compiled by John Porter of the University of Saskatchewan.

Kitto, H. D. F., Greek Drama, A Literary Study, London 1950
Winkler, John J., and Zeitlin, Froma I., edd., Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in its Social Context, Princeton 1990

Ancient Ethics (and Ethics in general)

A good general reader on ethics ancient and modern is Peter Singer, ed., Ethics (Oxford Readers series), Oxford 1994.

The article on Stoicism by Dirk Baltzly in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is highly recommended.

Dover, K. J., Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle, Oxford 1974
Everson, Stephen, ed., Ethics (Companions to Ancient Thought, vol. 4), Cambridge 1998
Konstan, David, Friendship in the Classical World, Cambridge 1997
Levine, Peter, Living without Philosophy, Albany 1998
MacIntyre, Alasdair, A Short History of Ethics, 2nd ed., London 1998 (1st ed. 1967)
Rist, J. M., Epicurus, an Introduction, Cambridge 1972

Aristotle

An on-line bibliography is available from the University of Toronto.

Ackrill, J. L., Aristotle’s Ethics, London 1973
Barnes, Jonathan, The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle, Cambridge 1995
    (see chapter 7, "Ethics," by D. S. Hutchinson)
Broadie, Sarah, Ethics with Aristotle, New York/Oxford 1991
Broadie, Sarah, and Howe, Christopher, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford 2002 (trans. and historical intro. by Howe; philosophical intro. and commentary by Broadie)
Irwin, Terence, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (trans. and commentary), Hackett 1986
Kraut, Richard, Aristotle on the Human Good, Princeton 1989
Rorty, A. O., Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, Berkeley 1980
Ross, Sir David, Aristotle, London 1923 (5th ed. 1949; frequent reprints)
Urmson, J. O.,  Aristotle’s Ethics, Oxford 1987

Aeschylus

An on-line bibliography is available from Eugene Cotter at Seton Hall University.

Gagarin, M., Aeschylean Drama, Berkeley/LA 1976
Goldhill, S., The Oresteia, Oxford 1992
Lebeck, Ann, The Oresteia: A Study of Languarge and Structure, Washington, DC 1971
Solmsen, F., Hesiod and Aeschylus, Ithaca, NY 1949

Aristophanes

An on-line bibliography is available from Eugene Cotter at Seton Hall University.

Konstan, David, Greek Comedy and Ideology, Oxford 1995
Nichols, Peter, Aristophanes' Novel Forms: The Political Role of Drama, London 1998

Euripides

An on-line bibliography is available from Eugene Cotter at Seton Hall University.

Gregory, J., Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians, Ann Arbor 1991
Vellacott, P., Ironic Drama, Cambridge 1975

Hesiod

Edwards, Anthony T., Hesiod's Ascra, Berkeley 2004
Clay, Jenny Strauss, Hesiod's Cosmos, Cambridge 2003
Nelson, Stephanie, God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod's Works and Days, Oxford 1998
West, M. L., ed., Hesiod, Theogony, Oxford 1966
West, M. L., ed., Hesiod, Works and Days, Oxford 1978
(The books by West are editions of the Greek text.  The introduction and commentary are invaluable.)

Sophocles

An on-line bibliography is available from Eugene Cotter at Seton Hall University.

Blundell, M. W., Helping Friends and Hurting Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics, Cambridge 1989
Knox, B. M. W., The Heroic Temper, Berkeley/Los Angeles 1964
Poe, J. P., Heroism and Divine Justice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Leiden 1974
Segal, C.P,. Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society, Cambridge, MA 1995
Stanford, W. B., The Ulysses Theme, 2nd ed., Oxford 1963
Wilson, Edmund, The Wound and the Bow, Seven Studies in Literature, New York 1947

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