GRS 200 Reference Bibliography

Required Texts (in bookstore and on reserve)

• Harris, Stephen L., and Gloria Platzner,Classical Mythology: Images and Insights. New York, 1971.

• Course Pack (Homeric Hymns to Hermes and Aphrodite; Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter)

Supplementary (in bookstore and on reserve)

• Graf, Fritz, Greek Mythology: an Introduction. Thomas Marier, trans. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins, 1993.

Required and supplementary texts will be available on reserve at MacPherson.

Primary Sources (on reserve)

• Hesiod, Theogony & Works and Days.

• Homer, Iliad, Odyssey

• Aeschylus, all plays.

• Euripides, all plays

• Sophocles, all plays

• Apollonius Rhodius, The Voyage of Argo

• Ovid, Metamorphoses

• Apollodorus, The Library

Secondary Sources (some are on reserve)

General

• Dowden, Ken, The Uses of Greek Mythology. London: Routledge, 1992.
  Good analysis.

• Grant, Michael, Myths of the Greeks and Romans. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962.
  Illustrations, analysis of mythology.

• Kirk, G.S., The Nature of Greek Myths. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
  Analysis of mythology, good overview of theories.

• Rose, H. J., A Handbook of Greek Mythology. London: Methuen; New York: Dutton, 1958.
  Good reference.

Specific Figures

• (various), Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford (England): Clarendon Press, 1970.
  Generally useful. (In MacPherson Reference Section)

• (various), New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. London; New York: Hamlyn, 1968.
  Good section on Roman mythology, good for comparative study, many images. (In MacPherson Reference Section)

• Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1991.
  References to original sources, section on men associated with each woman. (In MacPherson Reference Section)

• Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide To Literary and Artistic Sources. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
  Excellent, but detailed; not a casual guide, references to original sources.

• Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, Vol. 1 & 2. New York: G. Braziller, 1955, London: Cassel, 1958.
  Useful for sources, not analysis.

• Grimal, P., Dictionary of Classical Mythology. A.R. Maxwell, trans. Oxford, England: Hyslop 1985, New York: Blackwell 1986.
  Excellent, gives names in Greek, references to original sources, geneologies.

• Tripp, Edward, The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology. New York: Crowell, 1970.
  Quick and cheap, a handy first reference, uses Roman spelling.

Specific Topics

• Bremmer, Jan, ed., Interpretations of Greek Mythology. London: Croom Helm, 1987.
  Not basic, essays on various topics.

• Burkert, W., Ancient Mystery Cults. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1987.
  Good analysis.

• Burkert, W., Greek Religion. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985.
  Includes study of specific figures.

• Burkert, W., Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

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

• Caldwell, Richard S., The Origin of the Gods: A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
  Psychoanalytic study of Hesiod.

• Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
  Good reference, excellent images.

• Dundes, A., ed., Sacred Narrative: Readings in the History of Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
  Collection of essays.

• Edmunds, Lowell, ed., Approaches to Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins , 1990.
  Analysis, includes folklore types.

• Fontenrose, J., Python: A Study of Delphic Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980, c1959.
  Comparative mythology, analysis.

• Ferguson, John, Among the Gods; An Archeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion. London; New York: Routledge, c1989.

• Galinsky, G.K., The Herakles Theme. Oxford: Blackwell, 1972.
  Literature study from ancient to modern.

• Guthrie, William Keith, Greeks and Their Gods. London: Methuen, 1962.
  Study of Greek religion.

• Leach, E., Culture & Communication: The Logic by Which Symbols are Connected. Cambridge, England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
  An introduction to the use of structuralist analysis in social anthropology, not specifically to mythology.

• Leach, E., Lévi-Strauss. London: Fontana, 1970.
  Structuralism.

• Lefkowitz, M., Women in Greek Myth. London: Duckworth, 1986.
  Good analysis.

• Nilsson, M. P., The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1932.

• Puhvel, Jaan, Comparative Mythology. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987.
  Comparative analysis of ancient Near Eastern & Indo-European myths.

• Spretnak, Charlene, Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of pre-Hellenic Myths. Boston: Beacon Press, 1984, c1978.
  Interesting comments on goddess worship.

• Turner, Victor, The Ritual Process. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1969.
  Does not specifically cover Greek mythology or religion.

• Tyrrell, Wm. Blake and Frieda Brown, Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words In Action. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  Interesting analysis of culture and myth.

• Vernant, Jean Pierre, Myth and Society in Ancient Greece. Janet Lloyd, trans. Brighton, Eng.: Harvester Press, c1980.
  Collection of essays; more cultural than mythological.

• Zaidman, Louisa Bruit and Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Religion in the Ancient Greek City. trans. Paul Cartledge. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  Excellent study of Greek civic religion.

Further Bibliography

• Bremmer, Jan, ed., Interpretations of Greek Mythology. London: Croom Helm, 1987.
  Up-to-date select bibliography (pp 278-283).

• Dowden, Ken, The Uses of Greek Mythology. London: Routledge, 1992.
  Useful bibliography by topic (pp 178-184) and up-to-date general bibliography (pp 185-188).

• Harris, Stephen L., and Gloria Platzner,Classical Mythology: Images and Insights. New York, 1971.
  Good standard bibliography (pp 1043-1051).

• Peradotto, J., Classical Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography. Urbana, Ill.: American Philological Association, 1973.
  Good, but lacks later works.

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