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This reading list, though comprehensive, is not complete.  It is a work in progress:

 

Primary Sources:

Apollodorus.  The Library.  Vol. 2. Trans.  Sir James George Frazer.  Cambridge: Harvard U. P., 1921.

Aristophanes.  Frogs.  Trans. David Barrett.  New York: Penguin Books, 1964. 

Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Trans. Jack Lindsay. Bloomington: IUP, 1960.

Diodorus Siculus.  The Library.  Vol 3.  Trans. C. H.  Oldfather.  Cambridge: Harvard U. P., 1939.

Euripides.  The Bacchae: A Communion Rite.  Trans.  Wole Soyinka.  New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1973.

Hesiod.  The Homeric Hymns and Homerica.  Trans.  Hugh G. Evelyn-White.  Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1914.

Hesiod.  Theogony.  Trans.  Norman O. Brown.  Indianapolis:  Bobbs-Merrill, 1953.

Hesiod. Works and Days

Homer.  The Illiad.  Trans.  Ennis Rees.  New York: Random House, Inc., 1963.

Homer.  The Odyssey.  Trans.  Albert Cook.  New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1967.

Orpheus. The Hymns of Orpheus. Trans. Thomas Taylor. Los Angelos: Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1981.

Ovid.  Fasti.  Trans.  Sir James George Frazer.  Cambridge: Harvard U. P., 1931.

Pausanias.  Guide To Greece.  Vol. 2.  Trans.  Peter Levi.  Baltimore: Penguin Books Inc., 1971.

Pindar.  The Odes.  Trans.  Richmond Lattimore.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1947.

 

Secondary Sources:  

Burkert, W.  Ancient Mystery Cults.  Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1987.

Burkert, W.  Greek Religion. Trans.  J. Raffan.  Cambridge: Harvard U. P., 1985.

Burkert, W.  Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Carcopino, Jerome. Daily Life in Ancient Rome. New Haven: Yale UP, 1940.

Crapsey, Algernon Sidney. The Ways of the Gods. NY: International Press, 1920.

Detienne, M. et al.  Myth, Religion and Society: Structuralist Essays By  M.  Detienne,       L. Gernet, J.-P.  Vernant, and P. Vidal-Naquet.  Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, 1981

Detienne, M.  Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Myth.  Trans.  Janet Lloyd.  Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1977.

Faraone, Christorpher A., and Dirk Obbink, eds.. Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic & Religion. Oxford: OUP, 1991.

Farnell, L. R.  The Cults of the Greek States.  Vol III. New Rochelle: Caratzas Bros., 1977.

Farnell, L. R.  Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

Flacelière, Robert.  Daily Life in Greece.  Trans.  Peter Green.  London:  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959.

Friedrich, P.  The Meaning of Aphrodite.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press,  1978.

Gager, John G.  Curse Tablets and Bindign Spells from the Ancient World.  Oxford: OUP, 1992.

Graves Robert.  The Greek Myths.  Baltimore:  Penguin Books Inc.,  1955.

Guthrie, W. K. C.  Orpheus and Greek Religion.  New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1966.

Guthrie, W. K. C.  The Greeks and their Gods. Boston: Beacon Press,  1950.

James, E.O.  The Cult of The Mother Goddess: An Archaeological and Documentary Study.  New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1959.

Kerenyi, Carl. Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter. (Bollingen Series LXV - 4) Princeton: Princeton UP, 1967.

Luck, Georg. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1985.

Mylonas, G. E.  Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries.  Princeton: Princeton U. P., 1961.

Nilsson, M. P.  Cults, Myths, Oracles and Politics in Ancient Greece.  New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1972.

Nilsson, M. P.  Greek Folk Religion.  New York: Harper Publishers, 1961.

Otto, Walter F.  The Homeric Gods.  Trans.  Moses Hadas.  New York:  Pantheon Books Inc., 1954.

Parke, H. W.  Festivals of the Athenians.  Ithaca: Cornell U. P., 1977.

Schullard, H. H. Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.

Turcan, Robert. The Cults of the Roman Empire. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992.

Wright, Frederick Adam.  Greek Social Life.  New York: E. P.  Dutton & Co., 1925.

 

 
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