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Caroline Alexander2015 · Ecco (HarperCollins) · completeverse; first woman to publish a complete English Iliad, praised for fidelity to the Greek
Peter Green2015 · University of California Press · completeverse; scholarly, with extensive introduction and notes, close to the Greek meter
Barry B. Powell2013 · Oxford University Press · completeverse; readable modern rendering by a noted Homeric scholar
A. T. Murray (revised by William F. Wyatt)1924 · Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library) · completeprose; facing-page Greek text, the standard scholarly reference edition
Anthony Verity2011 · Oxford World's Classics · completeverse; close fidelity to Homer's line numbering
Stephen Mitchell2011 · Free Press · completeverse; streamlined and highly readable
Edward McCrorie2012 · Johns Hopkins University Press · completeverse; close and rhythmic
Herbert Jordan2008 · University of Oklahoma Press · completeverse; fluent unrhymed modern translation
Martin Hammond1987 · Penguin Classics · completeprose; clear accessible narrative
Derek Jacobi (with Maria Tucci)2006 · Penguin Audio · reads Robert Faglescelebrity narrator; pairs with McKellen's Odyssey; long-running bestseller edition
Stanley Lombardo2006 · Parmenides Audio · reads Stanley Lombardo (his own)translator reads his own punchy, modern-idiom version; also performs with drum accompaniment in live readings
Dan Stevens2019 · Audible Studios · reads Robert FitzgeraldDownton Abbey star narrates the classic Fitzgerald blank-verse translation
Alfred Molina2011 · Blackstone Audio / Simon & Schuster Audio · reads Stephen MitchellMitchell's leaner West-edition-based text; award-nominated performance
Anton Lesser2006 · Naxos AudioBooks · reads Ian Johnstonunabridged 16h39m; acclaimed RSC-actor narration of a free modern verse rendering
Vidish Athavale2023 · Audible Studios / Penguin Audio · reads Robert Faglesnewer re-recording of the Fagles translation
E. V. Rieu (rev. D. C. H. Rieu)1946 (rev. 1991) · Penguin Classics · completeprose; the original Penguin Classics launch title, still in print revised
A. T. Murray (rev. George E. Dimock)1919 (rev. 1995) · Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press · completefacing-page Greek/English prose; scholarly reference standard
Edward McCrorie2004 · Johns Hopkins University Press · completeverse; readable, less commonly bought but in print
Daniel Mendelsohn2025 · University of Chicago Press · completeverse; the newest major scholarly translation
Allen Mandelbaum1990 · Bantam Classics · completeverse; powerful and musical
Barry B. Powell2014 · Oxford University Press · completeverse; accessible modern academic translation
Ian McKellen1999 · Penguin Audio · reads Robert Faglescelebrated Shakespearean-voice reading of the Fagles verse translation
Claire Danes2018 · Audible Studios · reads Emily Wilsonfirst audiobook of Wilson's award-winning translation; Audible Original
Dan Stevens2014 · Macmillan Audio · reads Robert FitzgeraldDownton Abbey star reads the classic classroom-standard verse translation; includes a Greek excerpt
Derek Jacobi2006 · Recorded Books / HighBridge · reads Allen Mandelbaumwidely praised unabridged reading, 'sounds like the setting sun'
Anton Lesser2011 · Naxos AudioBooks · reads Ian Johnstonprose translation, clear modern reading, ~12h46m unabridged
Anton Lesser1998 · Naxos AudioBooks · reads William Cowper (1791)earlier Naxos edition using the 18th-century Cowper blank-verse translation
Anthony Heald2007 · Blackstone Audio · reads W. H. D. Rousestraightforward reading of Rouse's accessible prose translation
a full cast (adapted by Yuri Rasovsky)1970s/re-released 2000s · Blackstone Audio (originally National Radio Theatre) · reads original radio-drama adaptation (not a single print translation)Peabody Award-winning full-cast radio dramatization, 8 parts
George BlagdenPenguin Audio · reads E.V. Rieufresh reading of the classic accessible prose
Stanley LombardoParmenides Publishing · reads his ownthe translator performs his own energetic verse
Charlton GriffinAudio Connoisseur · reads A.T. Murrayclear resonant reading of the Loeb prose
Robin Waterfield1992 · Penguin Classics · selected essaysprose, most widely read general-reader selection
Donald Russell1993 · Oxford World's Classics · 17 selected essays and dialoguesprose, scholarly-but-readable, strong introduction/notes
Jeffrey Beneker2019 · Princeton University Press · three leadership essays (To an Uneducated Ruler; How to Be a Good Leader; Should an Old Man Engage in Politics?)prose, facing Greek, accessible modern 'Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers' series
Jeffrey Beneker2026 · Princeton University Press · single essay (De Recta Ratione Audiendi)prose, facing Greek, newest release in the same Princeton series
Frank Cole Babbitt and others1927-2004 · Loeb Classical Library · complete Moralia, 16 volsthe only complete English Moralia, facing Greek
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Matthew Lloyd Davies2019 · Ukemi Audiobooks (from W. F. Howes Ltd), distributed via Audible · reads Richard Shilleto (Ukemi selection)most substantial commercial Moralia audiobook; 26 essays incl. On Education of Children, On Abundance of Friends
Matthew Lloyd Davies2020 · Ukemi Audiobooks (from W. F. Howes Ltd), distributed via Audible · reads Richard Shilleto (Ukemi selection)companion volume continuing the ethical-essay selection
Martin Hammond2017 · Oxford World's Classics · The Jewish Warprose, newer and highly praised for vividness, scholarly introduction by Martin Goodman
H. St. J. Thackeray, Ralph Marcus, Allen Wikgren, and Louis H. Feldman1926-1965 · Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press · complete works (Jewish War, Jewish Antiquities, The Life, Against Apion) in 13 volumesfacing Greek-English text, the scholarly gold standard for citation
William Whiston, updated by Paul L. Maier1999 · Kregel Publications · complete works (Jewish War, Jewish Antiquities, The Life, Against Apion)prose, modernized 18th-century Whiston text with Maier's commentary, popular one-volume complete edition
William Whiston1737 · various, including Hendrickson Publishers · complete worksprose, the classic public-domain translation, still widely sold in an inexpensive hardcover edition
Allan Corduner2021 · Ukemi Audiobooks (W. F. Howes Ltd), via Audible · reads William Whistonunabridged, professionally produced multi-volume Audible edition
Jonathan Booth2023 · Ukemi Audiobooks (W. F. Howes Ltd), via Audible · reads William Whistoncompanion unabridged Audible edition to the Ukemi Antiquities
F. H. Colson, G. H. Whitaker, and Ralph Marcus1929 · Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library) · complete (10 vols. Greek text + 2 supplementary vols. of Armenian-only works)scholarly, facing Greek/Armenian text, the standard academic edition
C. D. Yonge1854 · Hendrickson Publishers (reprint of Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library ed.) · complete works, single volumeprose, most affordable one-volume complete edition, readable but dated Victorian English
David Winston1981 · Paulist Press (Classics of Western Spirituality) · selection — The Contemplative Life, The Giants, and thematic selections from other treatisesscholarly introduction with preface by John Dillon, best entry-point selection for students
Virtual Voice (AI narration)2024–2025 · Audible Studios / Appian Way Press · reads Appian Way Press (new modern translation)only known commercial audiobook edition of Philo; AI-generated (Virtual Voice) narration, 4-volume set, not a human celebrity narrator
Andrea L. Purvis2007 · Anchor Books (Pantheon/Random House) · completeprose; maps/appendices/essays by Robert Strassler; most-recommended modern edition
Benjamin Jowett1871 · Oxford (various reprints; public domain widely sold) · completeclassic Victorian prose translation, still in print in cheap editions
Robin Waterfield1993–2009 (various dialogues) · Oxford World's Classics · major dialogues (Republic, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, etc., separately)readable modern prose, widely recommended for individual dialogues
Christopher Rowe2004 · Penguin Classics · Republicscholarly modern prose translation with extensive notes
Desmond Lee1955 · Penguin Classics · Republiclong-standing readable prose edition, widely sold for decades
Allan Bloom1968 · Basic Books · Republicliteral, philosophically rigorous prose; interpretive essay included
A. E. Stallings2017 · Penguin Classics · Works and Daysverse (rhyming couplets); poet-translator, TLS Book of the Year 2018, most-recommended readable edition
Glenn W. Most2006 (rev. 2018) · Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press · Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia (Vol. I); Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments (Vol. II)facing-page Greek/prose, scholarly standard reference edition
M. L. West1988 · Oxford World's Classics · Theogony and Works and Daysprose, notes by leading Hesiod scholar, scholarly but accessible
Stanley Lombardo1993 · Hackett Publishing · Works and Days and Theogonyverse, energetic modern idiom, widely used in classrooms
Apostolos N. Athanassakis1983 (2nd ed. 2004) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Theogony, Works and Days, Shieldverse, extensive scholarly commentary
Dorothea Wender1973 · Penguin Classics · Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies (with Theognis)prose/verse mix, long-standing classroom staple
Barry B. Powell2017 · Oxford University Press · complete poemsverse, illustrated with the translator's own line drawings
Richmond Lattimore1959 · University of Michigan Press · Works and Daysverse, classic mid-century literary translation
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Andrea Giordani2019 · MuseumAudiobooks.com (Audible/Amazon) · reads Hugh G. Evelyn-White (public domain, adapted)combined-edition small-press narration
Andrea Giordani2019 · MuseumAudiobooks.com (Audible/Amazon) · reads Hugh G. Evelyn-White (public domain, adapted)standalone companion to the combined edition
Andrea Giordani2019 · MuseumAudiobooks.com (Audible/Amazon) · reads Hugh G. Evelyn-White (public domain, adapted)standalone Theogony by same narrator/publisher
Victor Craig2020 · Yashiki Audio (Audible/Amazon) · reads Hugh G. Evelyn-White (public domain)budget public-domain-text narration
Victor Craig2020 · Yashiki Audio (Audible/Amazon) · reads Hugh G. Evelyn-White (public domain)companion volume to Craig's Works and Days
Darren Grimes2023 · Adultbrain Publishing (Audible/Amazon) · reads Hugh G. Evelyn-White (public domain, adapted)combined-edition budget audiobook
Peter Coates2023 · Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing (Audible/Amazon) · reads Hugh G. Evelyn-White (public domain, adapted)standalone budget audiobook, Eastern-European self-publisher
Ronald E. Heine1989 · Catholic University of America Press · Commentary on John, Books 1-10prose, standard scholarly English version, first complete English translation
Ronald E. Heine1993 · Catholic University of America Press · Commentary on John, Books 13-32prose, companion volume completing the Heine translation
Ronald E. Heine2018 · Oxford University Press (Oxford Early Christian Texts) · Commentary on Matthew, complete surviving Greek and Latin remainsmost-recommended/most complete; first full English translation with facing scholarly annotations
Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J.1996 · Catholic University of America Press · Homilies on Luke, plus fragmentsprose, first English translation, only patristic commentary on Luke before Ambrose
John Clark Smith1998 · Catholic University of America Press · Homilies on Jeremiah, plus Homily on 1 Kings 28prose, first English translation of Origen's only Greek-preserved homilies
Joseph W. Trigg1998 · Routledge, The Early Church Fathers · selectionsaccessible one-volume anthology with introduction; a good starting point
Joseph T. Lienhard1996 · Catholic University of America Press · Homilies on Lukethe only complete set of the Luke homilies in English
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Virtual Voice (AI/text-to-speech)2025 · Audible (self-published, AI narration) · reads unstated (likely public-domain Crombie/Ante-Nicene Fathers text)AI-generated narration, self-published via Audible's Virtual Voice program, not a studio production
Virtual Voice (AI/text-to-speech)2025 · Audible (self-published, AI narration) · reads unstated (likely public-domain Butterworth or Crombie translation)AI-generated narration, self-published via Audible's Virtual Voice program
John Telfer2023 · Ukemi Audiobooks · reads Joseph W. Triggaudio edition of the Trigg anthology
Paul Woodruff1998 · Hackett Publishing · complete playprose/verse hybrid, widely used student edition with strong introduction
William Arrowsmith1959 · University of Chicago Press · complete playverse, classic mid-century standard, still in print
C. K. Williams1990 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · complete playverse by a major poet, praised for lyric intensity
James Morwood1999 · Oxford World's Classics · complete play (Bacchae and Other Plays)readable prose, scholarly notes and introduction
David Kovacs2002 · Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library) · complete play, Greek facing-pagescholarly, facing Greek text, standard reference edition
Robin Robertson2014 · Ecco (HarperCollins) · complete playfree modern verse rendering, acclaimed contemporary version
Reginald Gibbons2000 · Oxford University Press · complete playverse, from the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series
Stephen Esposito1998 · Focus Publishing/R. Pullins · complete playreadable, classroom-oriented edition with essays
Gilbert Murray1902 · George Allen & Unwin (public domain, reprinted by various) · complete playhistoric verse translation, still sold in reprint editions
Aaron Poochigian2021 · W. W. Norton · complete playmodern verse praised for its musicality
Emily Wilson2016 · Modern Library · in The Greek Playspart of the major sixteen-play anthology
Philip Vellacott1973 · Penguin Classics · in The Bacchae and Other Playswith Ion, Women of Troy and Helen
Arthur Grey2024 · Right Way Publishing · reads not specified (likely public-domain translation)short (1h49m) unabridged self-published-style edition, low profile
unspecified per-platform reader2016-2024 · various small aggregator imprints (audiobooks.com/AudiobooksNow/Apple Books listings) · reads not specifiedrepackaged public-domain audio, could not verify a distinct narrator identity beyond LibriVox and Right Way Publishing editions
Andrew George1999 · Penguin Classics · complete, with fragments of other Gilgamesh poemsprose; the standard scholarly-yet-readable edition, most-recommended
Stephen Mitchell2004 · Free Press · complete (English version, not a literal translation)verse; most popular readable/poetic version, bestseller
Sophus Helle2021 · Yale University Press · complete standard version plus essayprose/verse hybrid; newest major scholarly translation, acclaimed
Benjamin R. Foster2001 · W. W. Norton (Norton Critical Edition) · complete, with analogues, criticism, and context essaysprose; scholarly critical edition favored for classroom use
David Ferry1992 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · complete narrative (poetic rendering)verse; literary/poetic rendering, widely praised
N. K. Sandars1960 · Penguin Classics · complete, prose narrative synthesisprose; the long-standard classic introduction, still in print
Maureen Gallery Kovacs1989 · Stanford University Press · completeprose; academic line-by-line translation, used in university courses
Stanley Lombardo2019 · Hackett · completeintroduction by Assyriologist Gary Beckman; includes the 'monkey tablet' material
John Gardner and John Maier1984 · Vintage · completefrom the Sin-leqi-unninni standard version, with scholarly notes
Stephanie Dalley1989 · Oxford World's Classics · in 'Myths from Mesopotamia'scholarly translation alongside the other Mesopotamian myths
Herbert Mason1970 · Mariner Books · completefree verse narrative retelling rather than a scholarly translation
Danny P. Jackson1992 · Bolchazy-Carducci · completeverse translation with woodcut illustrations
Robert Temple1991 · Rider · completeliterary verse translation, 'He Who Saw Everything'
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George Guidall2006 · Recorded Books · reads Stephen Mitchellbest-known modern verse translation, veteran audiobook narrator
Richard Pasco1997 · Penguin Audio · reads N. K. Sandars (Penguin Classics prose version)AudioFile Earphones Award winner, classic Penguin Classics prose rendering, unabridged cassette
Sebastian Lockwood2012 · LumenArts · reads Sebastian Lockwood (storyteller adaptation)bardic/oral-storyteller adaptation rather than a straight literary translation
John Hanks2015 · Audible Studios · reads Gerald J. Davisindependent modern prose translation, Audible-only release
Victor Craig2020 · Woodkeep Audio · reads Stephen Langdon (early 20th-century scholarly version)public-domain-era scholarly translation given a new commercial narration
Graham Dunlop2023 · Audible Studios (Originals-adjacent indie release) · reads Valentin Rey (anonymous/composite rendering)lesser-known modern indie audiobook edition
Denis Minns and Paul Parvis2009 · Oxford University Press (Oxford Early Christian Texts) · the two Apologies (Greek critical text with facing English translation)scholarly, critical Greek text with new introduction and commentary
Thomas B. Falls (rev. Thomas P. Halton, ed. Michael Slusser)2003 · Catholic University of America Press (Selections from the Fathers of the Church) · Dialogue with Tryphoclassic Falls translation revised against Marcovich's critical edition; standard scholarly student edition
Thomas B. Falls1948 · Catholic University of America Press (Fathers of the Church, vol. 6) · First Apology, Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, and minor worksprose, long-standing complete one-volume edition, still in print/reprint
Leslie William Barnard1997 · Paulist Press (Ancient Christian Writers, no. 56) · First and Second Apologiesreadable prose with detailed scholarly notes; widely assigned in courses
Cody Medina2024 · TAN Books / Audible Studios · reads TAN Books edition (traditional Catholic translation, public-domain based)newest commercial edition, covers both Apologies
Tim Côté2017 · GodSounds, Inc. · reads public-domain (Roberts-Donaldson/ANF-based)solo First Apology edition
James Winston2017 · Audioliterature · reads public-domain (Roberts-Donaldson/ANF-based)alternate solo First Apology edition, also on Barnes & Noble/audiobooks.com
Dave BandfieldGodSoundshuman-narrated reading of the Dialogue with Trypho