Recommended Books About Ancient Greece

Old, but Gold

Just keep in mind that these may have some outdated language.

  • 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

Recommended Articles

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The Propitiation of Zeus - Joseph William Hewitt /  Mirror 1

The Agathos Daimon in Greco-Egyptian Religion - João Feliciano

The Cult of Artemis in Ephesus and the Possible Explanation of the Bee Symbol - Stefanos Skarmintzos

Athena and Ares: War, Violence, and Warlike Deities - Susan Deacy

Worshipping Hades: Myth and Cult in Elis and Triphylia - Diana Burton

The Cypriote Apollo. Characteristics of the Apolline Cult in Cyprus - Yannick Vernet

The Association of Hygieia with Asklepios in Graeco-Roman Asklepieion Medicine - Michael T. Compton

Protective Statues for the Home and Workshop: The Evidence for Cross-Cultural Contact in the Greek Magical Papyri by Christopher Faraone