Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “Greek tragedies with happy endings and little wailing – such as Euripides' Helen or Ion”
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett: “He desired him to produce a collection equal to that in the temple of Delphos, mentioned in the "Ion" of Euripides; where Hercules and his companion Iolaus, are represented in the act of killing the Lernaean hydra with golden sickles, kruseais harpais, where Bellerophon appea…”