Sources and Inspiration

Some books and articles I’ve found to be valuable in my research. A work in progress, not a complete list!

Some Basic Primary Sources

• Aeschylus. Aeschylus I: Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides. Trans. David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press, 1969.
• Aeschylus. Aeschylus II: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Prometheus Bound. Trans. David Grene et al. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• Euripides. Euripides I: Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus. Trans. David Grene et al. University of Chicago Press, 1955.
• Euripides. Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen. Trans. David Grene et al. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
• Euripides. Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion. Trans. David Grene et al. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• Euripides. Euripides IV: Rhesus, The Suppliant Women, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis. Trans. David Grene et al. University of Chicago Press, 1968.
• Euripides. Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women. The Bacchae. Trans. David Grene et al. University of Chicago Press, 1969.
• Hesiod. Theogony, Works and Days, Shield. Trans. Apostolos N. Athanassakis. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
• Herodotus. The Histories. Trans. Robin A.H. Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Homer. The Homeric Hymns. Trans. Apostolos N. Athanassakis. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.
• Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey (Boxed Set). Trans. Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1999.
• Homer. The Iliad of Homer. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.
• Homer. The Odyssey of Homer. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.
• Menander. Menander: The Plays and Fragments. Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Pausanias. Guide to Greece: Central Greece. Trans. Peter Levi. Penguin, 2004.
• Pausanias. Guide to Greece: Southern Greece. Trans. Peter Levi. Penguin, 2006.
• Orpheus. The Orphic Hymns: Text, Translation and Notes. Trans. Apostolos N. Athanassakis. Texts and Translations (Society of Biblical Literature), 1998.
• Ovid. The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Trans. Allen Mandelbaum. Harcourt Brace, 1995.
• Sappho. Poems and Fragments. Trans. Stanley Lombardo. Hackett Classics, 2002.
• Sophocles. The Complete Plays. Trans. Paul Roche. New American Library, 2001.
• Virgil. The Aenid. Trans. Robert Fitzgerald. Vintage, 1990.

A Few Secondary Sources

• Aleshire, Sara B. and Stephen D. Lambert. “Making the Peplos for Athena.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 142, 2003
• Allan, William. “Religious Syncretism: The New Gods of Greek Tragedy.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Vol. 102, 2004.
• Arnold, Irene Ringwood. “Festivals of Ephesus.” American Journal of Archaeology. 76.1, 1972.
• Balthis, Christy. “Built Altars and Religious Ritual in Hellenistic East Greece.” Visualizing Rituals: Critical Analysis of Art and Ritual Practice. Ed. Julia Werts. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2008.
• Bathrellou, Eftychia. “Menander’s Epitrepontes and the Festival of the Tauropolia.” Classical Antiquity 31.2, 2012.
• Berti, Irene. “Epigraphical documentary evidence for the Themis cult: prophecy and politics. Kernos 15, Centre International d’Etude de la religion grecque antique: Liege, Belgium, 2002
• Bevan, Elinor. “The Goddess Artemis, and the Dedication of Bears in Sanctuaries.” The Annual of the British School at Athens. 82, 1987.
• Bonnechere, Pierre. “Trophonius of Lebadea: mystery aspects of an oracular cult in Boetia.” Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults. Ed. Michael B. Cosmopoulos. Routledge: New York, 2003.
• Boutsakis, Efrosyni and Robert Hannah. “Aitia, Asronomy and the Timing of the Arrephoria.” The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2012.
• Bremer, J. M. “Greek Cultic Poetry: Some Ideas Behind a Forthcoming Edition.” Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 51, Fasc. 5, 1998
• Bremmer, Jan N. “The Birth of the Personified Seasons (Horai) in Archaic and Classical Greece.” Das Bild der Jahreszeiten im Wandel der Kulturen und Zeiten . Ed. Thierry Greub. Wilhelm Fink: Munchen, 2013.
• Bremmer, Jan N. “Greek Maenadism Reconsidered.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 55, 1984
• Bremmer, Jan N. “Hephaistos Sweats or How to Construct an Ambivalent God.” The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations. Eds. Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2010.
• Bremmer, Jan N. “Initiation Into the Eleusinian Mysteries: A “Thin” Description.” Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices: Studies for Einar Thomassen at Sixty. Eds. Christian.H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and John D. Turner. Brill: Leiden, 2012.
• Bremmer, Jan N. “Introduction: The Greek Gods in the Twentieth Century.” The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations. Eds. Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2010.
• Bremmer, Jan N. “Manteis, Mysteries and Mythography: Messy Margins of Polis Religion?” Kernos 23, Centre International d’Etude de la religion grecque antique: Liege, Belgium, 2010
• Bremmer, Jan N. “Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece: Observations on a Difficult Relationship.” Griechische Mythologie und Frühchristentum. Ed. Raban von Haehling. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 2005.
• Bremmer, Jan N. “The Scapegoat Ritual in Ancient Greece.“ Oxford Readings in Greek Religion. Ed. Richard Buxton. Oxford University Press: New York, 2000.
• Brenk, Frederick E. “Artemis of Ephesos: An Avant Garde Goddess.” Kernos 11, 1998.
• Brody, Lisa R. “The Cult of Aphrodite in Aphrodisias in Caria.” Kernos 14, Centre International d’Etude de la religion grecque antique: Liege, Belgium, 2001
• Brody, Lisa R. The Iconography and Cult of the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias. Diss. New York University, 1999.
• Buckler, John. “The Charitesia at Boeotian Orchemonos.” The American Journal of Philology. Vol. 105, No. 1, 1984.
• Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical. Trans. John Raffan. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA, 1985.
• Burkert, Walter. Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Trans. Peter Bing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
• Burns, Alfred. “The Chorus of Ariadne.” The Classical Journal. 17.2, 1975.
• Burton, Diana. “Hades: Cornucopiae, Fertility and Death.” ASCS Proceedings 32, 2011.
• Burton, Diana. “The Role of Zeus Meilichios in Argos.” ASCS Proceedings 31, 2010.
• Cassidy, William. “Dionysos, Ecstasy, and the Forbidden.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques . 17.1, 1991.
• Chaniotis, Angelos. “Aphrodite’s Rivals: Devotion to Local and Other Gods at Aphrodisias.” Cahiers Glotz 21, 2010.
• Chaniotis, Angelos. “Greek Ritual Purity: From Automatisms to Moral Distinctions.” How Purity Is Made. Eds. Petra Rosch and Udo Simon. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, 2012.
• Chaniotis, Angelos. “Ritual Dynamics: The Boiotian Festival of the Daidala.” Kykeon. Studies in Honour of H.S. Versnel, Brill: Leiden-Boston-Cologne, 2002.
• Clarke, Michael. “An Ox-Fronted River-God: Sophocles, Trachiniae 12-13.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 102, 2004.
• Cole, Susan Guettel. “Demeter in the Greek City and its Countryside.” Oxford Readings in Greek Religion. Ed. Richard Buxton. Oxford University Press: New York, 2000.
• Cole, Susan Guettel. “Landscapes of Artemis.” The Classical World. 93.5, 2000.
• Connor, W.R. “Seized by the Nymphs: Nympholepsy and Symbolic Expression in Classical Greece.” Classical Antiquity, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1988.
• Cromey Robert D. “Apollo Patroos and the Phratries.” L’antiquité classique, Tome 75, 2006.
• Crowther, N. B. “Male Beauty Contests in Greece: The Euandria and Euexia.” L’antiquite classique, Tome 54, 1985.
• Currie, Bruno. “Euthymos of Locri: A Case study in Heroization in the Classical Period.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 122, 2002.
• Diamont, Steven. “Theseus and the Unification of Attica.” Hesperia Supplements. 19, 1982.
• Dietrich, Bernard C. “Divine Personality and Personification.” Kernos. 1, 1988.
• Dow, Sterling. “The Athenian Calendar of Sacrifices: The Chronology of Nikhomakhos’ Second Term.” Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte. 9.3, 1960.
• Dow, Sterling. “’Attische Feste’, the Epidauria and the Arkhon.” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Neue Folge, 113. Bd., H. 4, 1970.
• Dow, Sterling. “The Greater Demarkhia of Erkhia.” Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 89, livraison 1, 1965.
• Dow, Sterling. “Six Athenian Sacrificial Calendars.” Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 92, livraison 1, 1968. pp. 170-186.
• Eisner, Robert. “Some Anomalies in the Myth of Ariadne.” The Classical World 71.3, 1977.
• Ekroth, Gunnel. “Blood On the Altars: On the Treatment of Blood at Greek Sacrifices and the Iconographical Evidence.” Antike Kunst 48, 2005.
• Ekroth, Gunnel: “Burnt, Cooked or Raw? Divine and Human Culinary Desires at Greek Animal Sacrifice.” Transformations in Sacrificial Practices: From Antiquity to Modern Times, Eds. Eftychia Stavrianopoulou, Axel Michaels and Claus Ambos. Berlin, 2008.
• Ekroth, Gunnel. “Meat, Man and God: On the Division of the Animal Victim at Greek Sacrifices.” Papers from the Michael H. Jameson Memorial Colloquium. Eds. Irene Polinskaya and Angelos Matthaiu. Athens, 2005.
• Ekroth, Gunnel. “Meat for the Gods.” Kernos Supplement 26, 2011.
• Ekroth, Gunnel. The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods. Liége: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2002
• Faraone, Christopher A. Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual. Oxford University Press: New York, 1992.
• Furley, William D. “Praise and Persuasion in Greek Hymns.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies. Vol. 115, 1995.
• Gagne, Renaud. “Winds and Ancestors: The Physika of Orpheus.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 103, 2007.
• Garland, Robert. Introducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion. Cornell University Press: New York, 1992.
• Garland, Robert. “Religious Authority in Archaic and Classical Athens.” The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 79, 1984.
• Garthwaite, John. “The Keres of the Athenian Anthesteria and Their Near Eastern Counterparts.” Scholia: Studies in Ancient Antiquity. Vol. 19, 2010.
• Gawlinski, Laura. “The Athenian Calendar of Sacrifices: A New Fragment from the Athenian Agora.” Hesperia 76, 2007.
• Gill, David. “Trapezomata: A Neglected Aspect of Greek Sacrifice.” Harvard Theological Review 67, 1974.
• Goff, Barbara. Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2004.
• Goušchin, Valerij. “Athenian Synoikism of the Fifth Century B.C., or Two Stories of Theseus.” Greece & Rome, Second Series, 46.2, 1999.
• Graninger, Charles Denver. “Apollo, Ennodia, and Fourth-century Thessaly.” Kernos 22, 2009.
• Graninger, Charles Denver. The Regional Cults of Thessaly. Diss. Cornell University, 2006.
• Haland, Evy Johanne. “The Ritual Year of Athena: The Agricultural Cycle of the Olive, Girls’ Rites of Passage, and Official Ideology.” Journal of Religious History 36.2, 2012.
• Hannah, Robert. Greek and Roman Calendars: Constructions of Time in the Classical World. Bloomsbury Academic: New York, 2005.
• Hansen, Mogens Herman. “95 Theses about the Greek “Polis” in the Archaic and Classical Periods. A Report on the Results Obtained by the Copenhagen Polis Centre in the Period 1993-2003. Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte. 52,3, 2003.
• Hedrick Jr., Charles W. “Phratry Shrines of Attica and Athens.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Vol. 60, No. 2, 1991
• Hedrick Jr., Charles W. “The Temple and Cult of Apollo Patroos in Athens.” American Journal of Archaeology. 92.2, 1988.
• Henrichs, Albert. “Anonymity and Polarity: Unknown Gods and Nameless Altars at the Areopagos.” Illinois Classical Studies 19, 1994.
• Henrichs, Albert. “Between City and Country: Cultic Dimensions of Dionysus in Athens and Attica.” Cabinet of the Muses: Essays on classical and comparative literature in honor of Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. Eds. Mark Griffith and Donald J. Mastronarde Department of Classics, University of California Berkeley, 1990.
• Henrichs, Albert. “Greek Maenadism from Olympias to Messalina.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 82, 1978.
• Henrichs, Albert. “Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: The Modern View of Dionysus from Nietzsche to Girard “ Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 88, 1984.
• Henrichs, Albert. “What is a Greek God?” The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations. Eds. Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2010
• Hollinshead, Mary B. “’Adyton,’ ‘Opisthodomos,’ and the Inner Room of the Greek Temple.” Hesperia 68.2, 1999.
• Horster, Marietta. “Religious Landscape and Sacred Ground: Relationships Between Space and Cult in the Greek World.” Revue de l’histoire des religions 4, 2010.
• Jameson, Michael H. “Notes on the Sacrificial Calendar from Erchia.” Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 89, livraison 1, 1965.
• Jameson, Michael H., David R. Jordan, and Roy D. Kotansky. “A Lex Sacra from Selinous.” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Monographs 11 Durham, NC, 1993.
• Johnston, Sarah Iles. “Animating Statues: A Case Study in Ritual.” Arethusa 41.3, 2008.
• Johnston, Sarah Iles. “Corinthian Medea and the Cult of Hera Akraia.” Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art. Eds. James J. Clauss and Sarah Iles Johnston. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1997.
• Johnston, Sarah Iles. “Crossroads.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 88, 1991.
• Johnston, Sarah Iles. “Myth, Festival, and Poet: The Homeric Hymn to Hermes and Its Performative Context.” Classical Philology 97.2, 2002.
• Johnston, Sarah Iles. Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1999.
• Kajava, Mika. “Hestia: Hearth, Goddess, and Cult.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 102. 2004.
• Kallini, Chrysanthi. “The Eagle on Greek coins: The example of Hellenistic Macedonian and Epirotic Coins.” Prédateurs dans tous leurs états. Évolution, Biodiversité, Interactions, Mythes, Symboles. Antibes: APDCA, 2011.
• Kroll, John H. “The Ancient Image of Athena Polias.” Hesperia Supplements 20, 1982.
• Larson, Jennifer. Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide. Routledge: New York, 2007.
• Larson, Jennifer. Greek Heroine Cults. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 1995.
• Larson, Jennifer. Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore. Oxford University Press: London, 2001.
• Larson, Jennifer. “Handmaidens of Artemis?” The Classical Journal. 92.3, 1997.
• Laughy, Michael Harold. Ritual and Authority in Ancient Athens. Diss. University of California Berkeley, 2010. Escholarship: UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
• Liapis, Vayos J. “Zeus, Rhesus and the Mysteries.” The Classical Quarterly. 57.2, 2007
• Lloyd-Jones, Hugh. “Artemis and Iphigeneia.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 103, 1983.
• Mansfield, John Magruder. The Robe of Athena and the Panathenaic Peplos. Diss. University of California, Berkeley, 1985. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985.
• Marquardt, Patricia A. “A Portrait of Hecate.” The American Journal of Philology. 102.3, 1981.
• Maurizio, Lisa. “Anthropology and Spirit Possession: A Reconsideration of the Pythia’s Role at Delphi.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 115, 1995.
• Mikalson, Jon D. Ancient Greek Religion. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA, 2005.
• Mikalson, Jon D. “The Heorte of Heortology.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, North America, 23, feb. 2011.
• Mikalson, Jon D. “Notes and Observations: The Noumenia and Epimenia in Athens.” Harvard Theological Review. 65, 1972.
• Mikalson, Jon D. “Religion in the Attic Demes.” The American Journal of Philology. 98.4, 1977.
• Mikalson, Jon D. The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1974.
• Nilsson, Martin P. Greek Popular Religion. Columbia University Press: New York, 1940.
• Ogden, Daniel. ed. A Companion to Greek Religion. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA, 2007.
• Osborne, Robin. “Did Democracy Transform Athenian Space?” British School at Athens Studies, Vol. 15, Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond, 2007.
• Osborne, Robin. “Hoards, Votives, Offerings: The Archaeology of the Dedicated Object.” World Archaeology 36.1, 2004
• Parke, H.W. Festivals of the Athenians. Thames and Hudson: London, 1977.
• Parker, R. C. T. “Dionysus at the Haloa.” Hermes, 107 Bd., H. 2, 1979.
• Parker, Robert. Athenian Religion: A History. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1996.
• Parker, Robert. Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1985.
• Parker, Robert. On Greek Religion. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY, 2011
• Parker, Robert. Polytheism and Society at Athens. Oxford University Press: New York, 2005.
• Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane. L’Aphrodite grecque. Revue Kernos Supplement 4. Centre International d’Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique: Athènes-Liège, 1994.
• Rabinowitz, Jacob. “Underneath the Moon: Hekate and Luna.” Latomus. T. 56, Fasc. 3, 1997.
• Roberts, J.W. City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens 2nd ed. Routledge: New York, 1998. Taylor and Francis, 2001.
• Robertson, Noel. “The Riddle of the Arrephoria at Athens.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 87, 1983.
• Rosenzweig, Rachel. Worshipping Aphrodite: Art and Cult in Classical Athens. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2004.
• Rutherford, Ian. “Canonizing the Pantheon: The Dodekatheon in Greek Religion and its Origins.” The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations. Eds. Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2010
• Scullion, Scott. “Heroic and Chthonian Sacrifice: New Evidence from Selinous.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 132, 2000.
• Scullion, Scott. “Olympian and Chthonian.” Classical Antiquity. 13.1 1994.
• Sider, David. “Heraclitus on Old and New Months: P. Oxy. 3710.” Illinois Classical Studies. 19, 1994.
• Simms, Ronda R. “Mourning and Community at the Athenian Adonia.” The Classical Journal. 93.2, 1997-1998.
• Simon, Erika. Festivals of Attica: an Archaeological Commentary. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI, 1983.
• Shear, Julia Louise. Polis and Panathenaia: The History and Development of Athena’s Festival. Diss. University of Pennsylvania, 2001. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2001.
• Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane. “Further Aspects of Polis Religion” Oxford Readings in Greek Religion. Ed. Richard Buxton. Oxford University Press: New York, 2000.
• Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane. “Persephone and Aphrodite at Locri: A Model for Personality Definitions in Greek Religion”. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 98, 1978.
• Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane. “What is Polis Religion?” Oxford Readings in Greek Religion. Ed. Richard Buxton. Oxford University Press: New York, 2000.
• Stafford, Emma. “Herakles Between Gods and Heroes.” The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations. Eds. Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2010.
• Stafford, Emma. “Personification in Greek Religious Thought and Practice.” A Companion to Greek Religion, ed. Daniel Ogden. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, 2007.
• Stallsmith, Allaire. “Interpreting the Athenian Thesmophoria.” Classical Bulletin 84.1, 2009.
• Thompson, Homer A. “The Altar of Pity in the Athenian Agora.” Hesperia. 21.1, 1952.
• Van Damme, Trever. Remembering the Mycenaeans: How the Ancient Greeks Repurposed their Prehistoric Past. MA Thesis. University of Victoria, 2010.
• Van Straten, Folkert. “Votives and Votaries in Greek Sanctuaries.” Oxford Readings in Greek Religion. Ed. Richard Buxton. Oxford University Press: New York, 2000.
• Walker, Keith G. Archaic Eretria: A Political and Social History from the Earliest Times to 490 BC. Routledge: 2004.
• Waugh, Nicki. “Visualizing Fertility at Artemis Orthia’s Site.” British School at Athens Studies 16, 2009.
• Webster, T. B. L. “The Myth of Ariadne from Homer to Catullus.” Greece & Rome, Second Series, Vol. 13, No. 1 , 1966.
• Whitley, James. “The Chimera of Continuity: What Would ‘Continuity of Cult’ Actually Demonstrate?” Hesperia Supplements 42, 2009.
• Wildberg, Christian. “Piety as Service, Epiphany as Reciprocity: Two Observations on the Religious Meaning of the Gods in Euripides.” Illinois Classical Studies. 24/25, 1999/2000.
• Wycherley, R. E. “Minor Shrines in Ancient Athens.” Phoenix, 24.4, 1970.