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Recommended reading listNote: I own and have read all of these. Those not marked by stars yet I'm either re-reading for better input or just got and am current reading. As I read more and have time to add them, they will be added here. No booklists were "ripped off" by me or anyone else. Click on the links to order them from Amazon.com.
For a more complete booklist (and updated more frequently)
Please also visit my links section for online organizations,
resources, and emailing lists for Greek and Roman religion.
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Rating System - A must have for your collection! - Very good! - Not bad, borrow from someone first - Ugh. :(No stars - Not yet rated, still reading! |
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Ancient Greek Religion |
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| Apollo and His Cult and Myth | ||
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Apollo: The Wind, the Spirit, and the God - Karl Kerenyi
Apollo: The Golden God - Doris Gates
Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins - Joseph Fontenrose
The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations - Joseph Fontenrose
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| Dionysos and His Cult and Myth | ||
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Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructable Life - Karl Kerenyi
Dionysus: Myth and Cult - Walter Otto
Gods of Love and Ecstasy : The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus - Alain Danielou
The Bacchae of Euripides : A New Translation With a Critical Essay -Euripides, Donald Sutherland (Designer)
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Greek Drama - edited by Moses Hadas
The Odyssey - Homer, Robert Fagles (translator)
The Iliad - Homer, Robert Fagles (translator)
Medea (Dover Thrift Edition) - Euripides, Rex Warner (Translator)
The Oresteia Trilogy : Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies (Dover Thrift Editions)
- Aeschylus, Aeschylus, Aeschylus Agamemnon, Aeschylus Libation-beare, E. D. Morshead (Translator)
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| General Greek Religion | ||
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Greek Religion - Walter Burkert
Ancient Mystery Cults - Walter Burkert
Eleusis - Karl Kerenyi
Gods of the Greeks - Karl Kerenyi
Heroes of the Greeks - Karl Kerenyi
Greek Mythology: An Introduction - Fritz Graf
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion - Jane Ellen Harrison
Magika Hiera : Ancient Greek Magic and Religion - Christopher A. Faraone (Editor), Dirk Obbink (Editor)
The Magical Greek Papyri in Translation - Hans Dieter Betz
Callimachus Hymns & Epigrams Lycphrn (129) - G. R. Mair (Translator), A. W. Mair (Translator)
Religion in the Ancient Greek City - Louise B. Zaidman, Pauline Schmitt Pantel
Hesiod : Theogony, Works and Days, Shield - Apoltolos N. Athanassakis (Translator), Apostolos N. Athanassakis
Orpheus and Greek Religion - W. K. C. Guthrie
The Hymns of Orpheus/Mutations - R. C. Hogart
The Homeric Hymns - Charles Boer (translator)
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Modern Greek Religion |
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Old Stones, New Temples - Drew Campbell
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Ancient Roman Religio |
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Dictionary of Roman Religion - Adkins and Adkins
Cults of the Roman Empire - Robert Turcan
The Roman Poets
-Peter Washington
Ovid the Metamorphoses - Horace Gregory
The Aeneid of Vergil - Clyde Pharr (I do not own the book by this translator, but as my copy is
very old and unlikely to be found, I've included this one instead).
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Modern Roman Religio |
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Greek and Roman sources |
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Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Georg Luck
Magic of the Ancient World - Fritz Graf
Bulfinch's Mythology - Thomas Bulfinch
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Modern Fiction and InterpretationsModern day myths, translations, and fiction... read at your own discretion |
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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks (Translator)
This one is my favorite! It is unbelievably beautiful.
The King Must Die! - Mary Renault
The Mask of Apollo - Mary Renault
The Firebrand - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Double Tongue - William Golding
The Kronos Condition - Emily Devenport
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