Classical Greek • the
Iliad and
Odyssey of
Homer • other poems in the
Epic Cycle (all lost): • the
Kypria, attributed to
Stasinos of Cyprus • the
Aithiopis • the
Little Iliad • the
Iliou Persis ("Sack of Troy") • the
Nostoi ("Returns") • several poems by
Stesichorus,
Alcaeus, and
Sappho • numerous plays, mostly tragedies of which the extant ones are: • by
Aeschylus: •
Agamemnon •
Libation Bearers • by
Sophocles: •
Ajax •
Philoctetes •
Electra • by
Euripides: •
Iphigenia at Aulis •
Trojan Women •
Hecuba •
Andromache •
Helen •
Electra •
Orestes •
Iphigenia in Tauris •
Cyclops • of disputed authorship (traditionally attributed to Euripides): •
Rhesus • the
Heroicus by
Philostratus the Elder (3rd century) • the
Capture of Troy by
Triphiodorus • the
Posthomerica by
Quintus of Smyrna (4th century AD) • excerpts from
Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca (1st or 2nd century AD)
Latin • the
Aeneid by
Virgil (book 2) • the
Metamorphoses by
Ovid (books 12–14) • the
Heroides By
Ovid (I, III, V, VII) • the
Double Heroides By
Ovid (XVI & XVII) • the
Ephemeris, purporting to be by
Dictys of Crete • the
Fall of Troy, purporting to be by
Dares of Phrygia • the
Achilleis by
Statius Medieval •
Roman de Troie by
Benoît de Sainte-Maure (ca. 1160), derived from Dictys and Dares. •
De bello Troiano by
Joseph of Exeter (1183–4) •
Historiae destructionis Troiae by
Guido delle Colonne (1287), derived from Benoît. •
Il filostrato by
Boccaccio, derived from Benoît and Guido. •
Troilus and Criseyde by
Geoffrey Chaucer, a poem in
rhyme royal telling a tragic love story set during the war; derived from the above works. • The
Rawlinson Excidium Troie •
The Seege of Troye, a Middle English poem based on "Dares" and Benoît. •
The Laud Troy Book, another Middle English poem, written about 1400. •
Troy Book by
John Lydgate, a Middle English poem composed 1412–20.
Modern •
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, published in 1474, the first printed book to be published in English, containing
Caxton's translation of
Raoul le Fevre's work, in turn derived from Guido and, ultimately, Benoît. •
Christopher Marlowe's
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, written circa 1590, features
Helen of Troy. •
Troilus and Cressida,
William Shakespeare's dark interpretation of Chaucer's story, derived from Caxton's
Recuyell written in 1602. •
The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys play by
Jan Kochanowski, 1578 •
Penthesilea play by
Heinrich von Kleist, 1808. •
Faust, Part 2 by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published in 1832 features
Helen of Troy. • Several poems by
William Butler Yeats make reference to the Trojan War or Troy in the context of the Trojan War. •
No Second Troy, published in 1910 •
A Man Young and Old VI, published in 1928 •
Leda and the Swan, published in 1928 •
The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, play by
Jean Giraudoux, written in 1935. •
A Trojan Ending, novel by
Laura Riding (Deya: Seizin Press; London: Constable, 1937). •
Kassandra by
Christa Wolf, published in 1983. •
The Greek Generals Talk (1986) and
The Trojan Generals Talk collections of short stories by
Phillip Parotti. •
Cassandra: Princess of Troy by
Hilary Bailey published in 1993. •
The Song of Troy by
Colleen McCullough published in 1998. •
The Nantucket series by
S. M. Stirling involves a time-travelling American adventurer overthrowing
Agamemnon and proceeding to himself conquer and destroy Troy, in a manner quite different from that depicted by Homer. (Published 1998–2000) •
The Songs of the Kings by
Barry Unsworth, published in 2002. •
Ilium by
Dan Simmons, published in 2003, gives the story of Troy a science fiction twist. •
The Siege of Troy by
Greg Tobin published in 2004. •
The Talisman of Troy: A Novel by
Valerio Massimo Manfredi published in 2004. •
Lindsay Clarke's
Troy Quartet: •
The War at Troy, published in 2004. •
Return from Troy, published in 2005. •
The Spoils of Troy, published in 2019. •
A Prince of Troy, published in 2019. •
War Music by
Christopher Logue, a
Modernist retelling of books 1–8 and 16–19 of
Homer's Iliad, published between 1959 and 2005. •
Gene by
Stel Pavlou, published in 2005, is the story of a soldier from the
Trojan War reincarnated seven times through history. •
David Gemmell's Troy Series: •
Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow, published in 2005. •
Troy: Shield of Thunder, published in 2006. •
Troy: Fall of Kings, published in 2008. •
Helen of Troy by
Margaret George, published in 2006. •
The Song of Achilles, by
Madeline Miller, published in 2012 is a retelling of the stories surrounding the Trojan War from the point of view of
Patroclus, who the story presents as the
lover of
Achilles. •
Ransom, by
David Malouf, published in 2009, is a retelling of the Iliad, from books 22 to 24. It tells the story of
Priam as he goes to
Achilles to plead for the return of the body of
Hector. •
The Lost Books of the Odyssey, by
Zachary Mason, published in 2010, is a creative retelling of the adventures of
Odysseus, king of
Ithaca, told from the perspective of (mostly) the antagonists of Odysseus, e.g.
Polyphemus,
Circe, and
Penelope. • The
Starcrossed Series, by
Josephine Angelini published 2011-2013 is a modern retelling of history repeating itself with flashbacks to the original war, focusing on the characters of Helen and Paris. •
The Silence of the Girls, by
Pat Barker published in 2018 is a retelling from the point of view of
Briseis. •
A Thousand Ships, by
Natalie Haynes, published in 2019 is a retelling from various female characters' points of view. ==Music==