Homer: A Research Guide: Adaptations

Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Built on the groundwork of the Iliad, Madeline Miller's page-turning, profoundly moving, and blisteringly paced retelling of the epic Trojan War marks the launch of a dazzling career.

Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.

Based on sources other than Homer's Odysssey, award-winning author Margaret Atwood has the wife of Odysseus tell her own version of her life story.

From Robert Fagles's acclaimed translation, An Iliad telescopes Homer's Trojan War epic into a gripping monologue that captures both the heroism and horror of war. Crafted around the stories of Achilles and Hector, in language that is by turns poetic and conversational, An Iliad brilliantly refreshes this world classic.

Logue here retells some of the most evocative episodes of the war classic, including the death of Patroclus and Achilles's fateful return to battle, that sealed the doom of Troy.

In this modern epic poem, the Nobel Prize-winning author tells what happened to Oysseus after the events of the Odyssey.

Vergil picks up the story of Aeneas, a Trojan warrior mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, with the taking of Troy by the Greeks and Aeneas' voyage to Italy, where he became the ancestor of Romulus and Remus, the traditional founders of Rome.

Margaret George, the highly acclaimed bestselling historical novelist, has turned her intelligent, perceptive eye to the myth that is Helen of Troy. Margaret George breathes new life into the great Homeric tale by having Helen narrate her own story. George has captured a timeless legend in a mesmerizing tale of a woman whose life was destined to create strife and destroy civilizations.

A vivid, uninhibited retelling of the classic Greek stories, including those of the wrath of Achilles and the wanderings of Odysseus.

With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's play brings to the stage the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca. The Odyssey confirms that Derek Walcott is as compelling a playwright as he is a poet.

In The Husbands, Logue trains his lyrical eye upon Homer's ultimate femme fatale, Helen of Troy, and her ardently mortal husbands, Menelaus and Paris. Logue gives us a reading of classic literature that makes unquestionably clear its relevance to our own time.

In this work, Giraudoux criticizes diplomacy and the behavior of the national leaders and intellectuals who brought about World War I and the lead-up to World War II.

Joyce uses Homer's Oddssey as a template to tell the story of one day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom.