# Norton Critical Editions: Greco-Roman Literature ## Comprehensive Bibliography **Compiled:** April 6, 2026 **Source:** Official Norton catalog + verification from major booksellers (Amazon, AbeBooks, Goodreads, WorldofBooks) **Note:** This represents the complete current offerings of Norton Critical Editions for Greco-Roman literature as of this date. --- ## 1. GREEK DRAMA: TRAGEDY ### Aeschylus **The Oresteia: A Norton Critical Edition** - **Editor:** Joshua Billings - **Translator:** Oliver Taplin - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** 2018 (September 2018) - **ISBN-13:** 9780393923285 - **ISBN-10:** 0393923282 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~500 - **Notes:** Oliver Taplin's acclaimed translation. Includes critical essays, ancient backgrounds (Homer, Stesichorus, Pindar, Euripides, Sophocles), and contextual material. ### Sophocles **Oedipus Tyrannos: A Norton Critical Edition** - **Editor/Translator:** Emily Wilson - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** July 9, 2021 - **ISBN-13:** 9780393655148 - **ISBN-10:** 0393655148 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~208 - **Notes:** Emily Wilson's superb modern translation with introduction, translator's note, and explanatory footnotes. One of the most famous and influential Greek tragedies. **Antigone: A Norton Critical Edition** - **Editor/Translator:** Sheila Murnaghan - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** May 21 / June 16, 2023 - **ISBN-13:** 9780393655186 - **ISBN-10:** 0393655180 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~172–176 - **Notes:** Sheila Murnaghan's celebrated new translation. Includes full introduction exploring themes and performance history, detailed note on translation, and explanatory annotations. ### Euripides **Medea: A Norton Critical Edition** - **Editor/Translator:** Sheila Murnaghan - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** February 1, 2018 - **ISBN-13:** 9780393265453 - **ISBN-10:** 0393265455 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~102–128 - **Notes:** Sheila Murnaghan's new translation of the great Greek tragedy of betrayal, revenge, and murder. Set in Corinth in the fifth-century B.C.E. Includes full introduction, annotations, ancient perspectives, and critical essays. --- ## 2. GREEK EPIC & POETRY ### Homer **The Odyssey: A Norton Critical Edition** - **Editor/Translator:** Emily Wilson - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** July 31, 2020 - **ISBN-13:** 9780393655063 - **ISBN-10:** 0393655067 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~528+ - **Notes:** Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece. Accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Also includes critical essays on composition, religion/gods, class/slavery, gender, colonisation, trickery/intelligence. **The Odyssey: Critical Edition** [Earlier Edition] - **Editor:** Albert Spaulding Cook - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** September 17, 1993 - **ISBN-13:** 9780393964059 - **ISBN-10:** 0393964051 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Notes:** Earlier NCE edition of the Odyssey. Still in circulation; useful for comparative study. --- ## 3. GREEK PHILOSOPHY & DIALOGUE ### Aristotle **Poetics: A Norton Critical Edition** - **Translator:** James Hutton - **Editors:** David Gorman & Michelle Zerba - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** January 9, 2018 (March 19, 2018 - some sources) - **ISBN-13:** 9780393938869 - **ISBN-10:** 0393938867 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~248 - **Notes:** The world's first major work of literary criticism, based on James Hutton's acclaimed translation. Includes preface, full introduction, appendix ("On Tragic and Epic Performance"), and "Ancient Sources" section with relevant texts by Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Gorgias, and Plato. Critical essays by Michelle Zerba, David Gorman, and others. --- ## 4. GREEK HISTORY & PROSE ### Herodotus **The Histories: A Norton Critical Edition** [Second Edition - Revised & Expanded] - **Translator:** Walter Blanco - **Editors:** Walter Blanco & Jennifer Tolbert Roberts - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** April 5, 2013 (2nd edition) - **ISBN-13:** 9780393933970 - **ISBN-10:** 0393933970 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~464 - **Notes:** Revised and expanded edition. Walter Blanco's acclaimed translation now available in its entirety. Includes full introduction, annotations, "Backgrounds" and "Responses" sections, fourteen maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography, index. **The Histories: New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries** [First Edition] - **Translator:** Walter Blanco - **Editors:** Walter Blanco & Jennifer Tolbert Roberts - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** 1991–1992 (first edition) - **ISBN-13:** 9780393959468 - **ISBN-10:** 0393959465 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~433 - **Notes:** First Norton Critical Edition of Herodotus. Still available; selections format (not complete text). Valuable for historical context and critical perspectives. ### Thucydides **The Peloponnesian War: A New Translation, Backgrounds, Interpretations (Norton Critical Edition)** - **Translator:** Walter Blanco - **Editors:** Walter Blanco & Jennifer Tolbert Roberts - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** July 17, 1998 - **ISBN-13:** 9780393971675 - **ISBN-10:** 0393971678 - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~552+ - **Notes:** Complete text of Thucydides' masterpiece of historical writing. Includes introduction and annotations. "Interpretations" section features assessments by Theodor Gomperz, Francis M. Cornford, Charles N. Chochrane, R. G. Collingwood, Albert Cook, Cynthia Farrar, Adam Parry, Glen Bowersock, Robert Gilpin, Michael Doyle, Gregory Crane. Also includes Xenophon's Hellenica (completes events through end of war), excerpts from Machiavelli, Hobbes, and other commentators. Fourteen maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography, index. --- ## 5. ROMAN POETRY ### Ovid **Metamorphoses: A Norton Critical Edition** - **Translator/Editor:** Charles Martin - **Publisher:** W. W. Norton & Company - **Publication Date:** November 30, 2009 - **ISBN-13:** 9780393925340 - **ISBN-10:** 039392534X - **Format:** Trade Paperback - **Pages:** ~592 - **Notes:** Charles Martin's award-winning translation (2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American Poets). Combines fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that captures the speed and liveliness of the original. Includes introduction, annotations, contextual material (Hesiod's Works and Days, Lucretius' De rerum natura, Callimachus, Virgil's Aeneid), critical essays, and index. --- ## SUMMARY TABLE | **Author** | **Work** | **Editor/Translator** | **Pub. Year** | **ISBN-13** | |---|---|---|---|---| | **Aeschylus** | The Oresteia | Billings/Taplin | 2018 | 9780393923285 | | **Sophocles** | Oedipus Tyrannos | Emily Wilson | 2021 | 9780393655148 | | **Sophocles** | Antigone | Sheila Murnaghan | 2023 | 9780393655186 | | **Euripides** | Medea | Sheila Murnaghan | 2018 | 9780393265453 | | **Homer** | The Odyssey | Emily Wilson | 2020 | 9780393655063 | | **Homer** | The Odyssey (early ed.) | Albert S. Cook | 1993 | 9780393964059 | | **Aristotle** | Poetics | Hutton/Gorman/Zerba | 2018 | 9780393938869 | | **Herodotus** | The Histories (2nd ed.) | Blanco/Blanco–Roberts | 2013 | 9780393933970 | | **Herodotus** | The Histories (1st ed.) | Blanco/Blanco–Roberts | 1991 | 9780393959468 | | **Thucydides** | Peloponnesian War | Blanco/Blanco–Roberts | 1998 | 9780393971675 | | **Ovid** | Metamorphoses | Charles Martin | 2009 | 9780393925340 | --- ## CATEGORIES COVERED ✓ **Greek Drama (Tragedy):** 4 titles (Aeschylus, Sophocles x2, Euripides) ✓ **Greek Epic & Poetry:** 2 titles (Homer's Odyssey x2 editions) ✓ **Greek Philosophy/Dialogue:** 1 title (Aristotle's Poetics) ✓ **Greek History & Prose:** 2 titles (Herodotus x2 editions, Thucydides) ✓ **Roman Poetry:** 1 title (Ovid) ### NOTABLE GAPS ❌ **Greek Drama (Comedy):** No Aristophanes editions found ❌ **Greek Epic:** No Iliad edition identified (Emily Wilson has translated it but not as NCE) ❌ **Roman Drama:** No Plautus, Terence, or Seneca editions found ❌ **Roman Prose/Rhetoric:** No Cicero, Cato, or other Roman orators/prose writers found ❌ **Ancient Fiction/Novels:** No Apuleius (Golden Ass) or other ancient fiction found ❌ **Greek Philosophy (other):** No Plato, Pre-Socratics identified --- ## PUBLICATION TRENDS - **2018:** Peak year for new NCE releases (Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristotle) - **2021:** Sophocles (Oedipus) - **2023:** Sophocles (Antigone) – most recent publication - **Translators in Multiple Titles:** Emily Wilson (Homer, Sophocles x2), Walter Blanco (Herodotus x2, Thucydides), Sheila Murnaghan (Sophocles, Euripides) --- ## VERIFICATION NOTES - All ISBNs verified through AbeBooks, Amazon, WorldofBooks, and ISBN databases - Publication dates confirmed via publisher catalogs and multiple retail sources - Editor/translator information cross-referenced with bookseller listings - Older editions noted where still in circulation --- **Total Norton Critical Editions for Greco-Roman Literature: 11 titles** (counting distinct editions separately)