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Hanna has published numerous journal articles and book chapters focusing on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod’s didactic epics, Greek Elegy, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and Classics and Contemporary Film and TV. She is the author of the following books: Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy, Hain 1984; The Odyssey Re-Formed, with F. M. Ahl, Cornell University Press 1996; Nothing is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus, Rowman and Littlefield 1999; Euripides' Alcestis, A Commentary for Students, The University of Oklahoma Press, 2003, with C.E.A. Luschnig; Sophocles: Philoctetes Duckworth, 2005; Sophocles: Electra, translation with notes, Focus Classical Library, 2008. Her commentary in collaboration with C.A.E. Luschnig on Euripides’ Electra is to come out next year published by The University of Oklahoma Press.
 The Odyssey Re-formed with Frederick Ahl. This is the most stimulating and enjoyable book about Homer that I have read in many years. It is attention to all the relevant issues and bibliography, methodologically sound, clearly and carefully argued, but also boldly original. Along the way, Ahl and Roisman offer may pleasures and fresh insights. Well brought out are the muse's narrative etiquette and mythopoeic agility, the resonance of patterns and symbols, wordplay, pathos, and humor. Jeffrey Henderson, Boston University
 Nothing Is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus In this valuable book, Hanna M. Roisman provides a uniquely comprehensive look at Euripides' Hippolytus. Roisman begins with an examination of the ancient preference for the implicit style, and suggests a possible reading of Euripides' first treatment of the myth that would account for the Athenians audiences' reservations about his Hippolytus Veiled. She proceeds to analyze significant scenes in the play, including Hippolytus' prayer to Artemis, Phaedra's delirium, Phaedra's "confession" speech, and the interactions between Theseus and Hippolytus. Concluding with a discussion of the meaning of the tragic in the Hippolytus, Roisman questions the applicability in this case of the ideas of the tragic flaw. Nothing is as It Seems includes extensive comparisons of Euripides' play with the Phaedra of Seneca. This is a very important book for students and scholars of Greek tragedy, literature, and rhetoric.
 Euripides' Alcestis with Notes and Commentary by C.A.E. Lusching and H.M.Roisman. Vol29 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture.Euripides' Alcestis - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal text for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, Luschnig and Roisman remedy such deficiencies. In their presentation, Luschnig and Roisman have initiated a new method for introducing students to current scholarship.
 Sophocles' Philoctetes
Sophocles' Philoctetes is an extraordinarily timely and timeless play. After having cynically abandoned the hero Philoctetes on a deserted island some ten years earlier, the wily Odysseus strives to lure him to join the Greek forces in their war against Troy. The play dramatizes the suffering and rage of Philoctetes and the moral and emotional development of Odysseus' assistant, the young Neoptolemus.
This is an introduction to the play for students and lay readers. The well focused chapters on Greek theater and performance, the mythical background, and the literary, intellectual, and political context illuminate the issues with which the play grapples. Its persuasive analysis of the characters and plot shed light on the play's complexities and ambiguities, making Sophocles' great play accessible, enjoyable and meaningful to modern readers.
 Sophocles' Electra In this new take on Sophocles’ Electra, Hanna M. Roisman gives a clear and close translation of the original Greek. Included in the text are a fresh interpretation of the play and an essay that examines the Afterlife of the play Electra in literature. Extensive notes highlight cultural issues to help readers understand the underlying themes in the story, as well as make comparisons to other, contemporary Greek versions of the myth, giving a well-rounded and comprehensive view of the tale of Electra as a whole.
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