Recommended Books About Ancient Greece

Old, but Mostly Gold

Classics is an old field of study. Some of these may have some parts that are out of date or use dated language. Academics love to disagree, so disagreement isn't necessarily exclusive to old books and papers.

• Greek Piety - Martin P. Nilsson
• Ancient Greek Religion - Jon D. Mikalson
• Oxford Readings in Ancient Greek Religion - ed. Richard Buxton
• The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year - Jon D. Mikalson
• Athenian Popular Religion - Jon D. Mikalson
• Asklepios: Archetypal Image of the Physician's Existence - Karl Kerenyi
• The Goddess Hekate - Stephen Ronan
• Greek Folk Religion - Martin P. Nilsson

Relatively New Books About Ancient Greece

• Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide - Jennifer Larson
• Mantike - Sarah Iles Johnston
• The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation - Hans Dieter Betz
• Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World - Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
• Aniconism in Greek Antiquity - Milette Gaifman
• On Greek Religion - Robert Parker
• Magika Hiera - ed. Christopher A. Faraone and Dirk Obbink

General Paganism

• True to the Earth: Pagan Political Theology - Kadmus