Shakespeare's Myths

Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica, II, 286-300; IV, 753-82.

Aristophanes. The Birds.

Callimachus. Hymn to Delos, 22.

Euripides. Hercules’ Madness.

Hesiod. Theogony, 263-69; 780-85.

Homer. Iliad, VIII, 397-425; XV, 168-73; XXIII, 198-212; XXIV, 77-82.

Homer. Hymn to Apollo, 102.

Lucan. Pharsalia, IV, 79-82.

Ovid. Metamorphoses, I, 270-71; IV, 479-80; XI, 585-91; XIV, 85, 845.

Plato. Cratylus, 408a-b.

Plutarch. Erotikos (Dialogue on Love), 2.20, 765E-F.

Seneca. Oedipus, 315-17.

Seneca. Natural Questions, I, iii, 1-12.

Theocritus. Idylls, XVII, “Panegyric of Ptolemy”, 131-34.

Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica, I, 655-58; IV, 75-77.

Virgil. Aeneid, IV, 695, 700-02; V, 618-63; IX, 1-24, 803-04, X, 38, 73.

Virgil. Georgics, I, 380.

Yves Peyré. "Iris." 2009. In A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology (2009-), ed. Yves Peyré. http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/129/iris

A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology