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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
D. C. Lau1963 · Penguin Classics · completethe standard scholarly Penguin translation, close to the received text and still the usual academic citation
Stephen Mitchell1988 · Harper (HarperPerennial, 1992) · completeby far the best-selling English edition, but a free interpretive version rather than a literal translation
Ursula K. Le Guin1997 · Shambhala · completea poet's rendition made with the sinologist J. P. Seaton, and presented by Le Guin herself as a rendering rather than a translation
Red Pine (Bill Porter)2009 · Copper Canyon Press · complete, with commentarythe text set beside two thousand years of traditional Chinese commentators; the choice for reading the tradition, not just the poem
Moss Roberts2004 · University of California Press · complete, annotateda scholarly translation with substantial notes on the historical and political reading of the text
Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English1972 · Vintage · completethe classic illustrated edition, calligraphy and photographs alongside a spare English text
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Stephen MitchellHarper · reads Stephen Mitchellread by the translator, from his own best-selling version
Gregory Hays2002 · Modern Library · completethe most widely recommended modern translation: plain, direct, and prefaced by a much-praised introduction
Robin Hard2011 · Oxford World's Classics · complete, with selected correspondencemore literal and closely annotated; adds the surviving letters between Marcus and his tutor Fronto
Martin Hammond2006 · Penguin Classics · completereadable modern prose with full explanatory notes
Robin Waterfield2021 · Basic Books · complete, annotatedThe Annotated Edition: a running commentary alongside the text, the fullest apparatus in print
Albert Pietersma and Benjamin G. Wright (eds.)2007 · Oxford University Press · the whole Septuagint, including Maccabees, Sirach and WisdomA New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS): the scholarly standard, translated from the Greek rather than the Hebrew
Michael D. Coogan (ed.), NRSV2010 · Oxford University Press · the Apocrypha with annotationsThe New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: the NRSV text with introductions and study notes, the usual classroom edition
Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton1986 · Hendrickson Publishers · the whole Septuagint with Apocrypha, Greek and Englishthe 1851 Victorian translation kept in print, Greek and English in parallel columns
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Christopher Glynthe wisdom books: Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), Wisdom of Solomon, Baruch, the Epistle of Jeremy and the Prayer of Manasses
Mel JacksonFifth EstateThe Apocrypha including books from the Ethiopic Bible, edited by Joseph B. Lumpkin, unabridged
Michael W. Holmes2007 · Baker Academic · complete, Greek and English (3rd edition)the standard scholarly edition: revised Greek text facing a modern English translation, with introductions and apparatus
Michael W. Holmes2006 · Baker Academic · complete, English onlythe same translation without the Greek, the readable one-volume edition most widely recommended
Bart D. Ehrman2003 · Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press) · complete, two volumes, Greek and Englishthe current Loeb: literal, closely annotated, Greek on the facing page
Maxwell Staniforth, revised by Andrew Louth1987 · Penguin Classics · selection (Early Christian Writings)readable prose selection of the main letters with Louth's introductions; the usual first read
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William SarrisTantor Media · reads Michael W. Holmesthe Holmes English translation, unabridged
Mel JacksonFifth Estate · reads J. B. Lightfoot and Charles Hoolepublic-domain translations edited by Joseph Lumpkin; also includes Justin Martyr and Papias
James WalmsleySteven BurgerVolume 1: Clement, Polycarp and Ignatius
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