This reading list, though comprehensive, is not complete. It
is a work in progress:
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Frazer. Cambridge:
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Aristophanes.
Frogs. Trans.
David Barrett. New York:
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Apuleius. The
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Diodorus
Siculus. The Library.
Vol 3. Trans. C. H.
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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
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Homer.
The Odyssey. Trans.
Albert Cook. New
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Orpheus. The
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Ovid.
Fasti. Trans.
Sir James George Frazer. Cambridge:
Harvard U. P., 1931.
Pausanias.
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Peter Levi. Baltimore:
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Pindar.
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Cambridge: Harvard
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Burkert,
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Burkert,
W. Structure and History
in Greek Mythology and Ritual.
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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,
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Detienne,
M. Gardens of Adonis:
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Faraone,
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Farnell, L.
R. The Cults of the Greek
States. Vol III. New
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Farnell, L.
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Ideas of Immortality. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1970.
Flacelière,
Robert. Daily Life in
Greece. Trans.
Peter Green. London:
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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.
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Guthrie, W.
K. C. The Greeks and their
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James,
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Kerenyi,
Carl. Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter. (Bollingen
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Luck,
Georg. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman
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Mylonas, G.
E. Eleusis and the
Eleusinian Mysteries. Princeton:
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Nilsson,
M. P. Cults, Myths,
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Nilsson, M.
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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
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Wright,
Frederick Adam. Greek
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