A Selective Bibliography For Further Reading

See also the excellent bibliography compiled by Laurel Bowman at the University of Victoria.

Remember to check the bibliographies for each chapter of M & L at the web site for the book.

New additions to this list will be highlighted in red.

Alexiou, Margaret, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, Cambridge 1974

Brown, Norman O., Hermes the Thief, Madison WI 1947

Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion, transl. John Raffan, Cambridge, MA 1995

---------------, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual, Berkeley/Los Angeles 1979

---------------, The Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions, Cambridge, MA 1996

Bush, Douglas, Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry, 1932, second ed., New York 1963

-------------, Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry, 1937, repr. New York 1963

Buxton, R. G. A., Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology, Cambridge 1994

Carpenter, Rhys, Folktale, Fiction, and Saga in the Homeric Epics, Berkeley 1946

Carpenter, Thomas H. and Faraone, Christopher A., edd., Masks of Dionysos, Ithaca, NY/London 1993

Clauss, James J., and Johnston, Sarah I., eds., Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth Literature, Philosophy, and Art, Princeton 1997

Clay, Jenny Strauss, The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns, Princeton 1989

-------------, Hesiod's Cosmos, Cambridge 2003

Detienne, M., and Vernant, J.-P., The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks, Chicago 1989, trans. P. Wissing

Dodds, E. R., The Greeks and the Irrational, Berkeley 1951

Edmunds, Lowell, ed., Approaches to Greek Myth, Baltimore/London 1990 (extensive bibliography)

Eliade, Mircea, Myth and Reality, transl. Willard R. Trask, New York 1963

Feder, Lillian, Ancient Myth in Modern Poetry, Princeton 1971

Foley, Helene P., ed., The Homeric Hvmn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays, Princeton 1994

Fontenrose, Joseph, Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and its Origins, Berkeley 1959

------------------, The Ritual Theory of Myth, Berkeley 1971

Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Baltimore 1993

Graf, Fritz, Greek Mythology: An Introduction, trans. T. Marier, Baltimore 1993

Graham, J. Walter, The Palaces of Crete, Princeton 1962, rev. ed. 1997

Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, 1955, repr. Garden City, NY 1991

Griffiths, Emma, Medea (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World), London 2005

Guthrie, W. K. C., The Greeks and their Gods, Boston 1954

Hawkes, Terence, Structuralism and Semiotics, Berkeley 1977

Kirk, Geoffrey S., Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures, Berkeley/Los Angeles 1970

-----------------, The Nature of Greek Myths, New York 1976

Kramer, Samuel N., ed., Mythologies of the Ancient World, 1951, repr. Garden City, NY 1961

Leach, Edmund, Claude Levi-Strauss, New York 1970

Lefkowitz, Mary R., Women in Greek Myth, Baltimore 1996

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, The Justice of Zeus, Berkeley 1971

Lyons, Deborah, Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, Princeton 1997

Padilla, M. W., Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece: Literature, Religion, Society, Lewisburg, PA 1999  (Bucknell Review, vol. 43, no. 1)

Parker, Robert, Athenian Religion: A History, Oxford 1996

Peradotto, John, Classical Mythology: An Annotated Bibliographical Survey, Urbana, IL 1973

Raglan, Lord, The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama, 1936, repr. New York 1956

Schein, Seth, Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays, Princeton 1996

Sebeok, Thomas, ed., Myth: A Symposium, 1955, repr. Bloomington, IN 1975

Shapiro, H. A., Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece, London/New York 1994

Simon, Erika, Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary, Madison, WI 1993

Solomon, Jon, ed., Apollo: Origins and Influences,Tucson, AZ 1994

Stanford, W. B., The Ulysses Theme, Ann Arbor 1968

Tyrrell, W. B. and Brown, F. S., Athenian Myths and Institutions, New York/Oxford 1991 (bibliography: pp. 217-224)

Vernant, Jean-Pierre, Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays, ed. Froma Zeitlin, Princeton 1991

--------------------, Myth and Society in Ancient Greece, 1974, transl. Janet Lloyd, New York 1990

--------------------, The Origins of Greek Thought (transl.), Ithaca, NY 1992

Walker, Henry J., Theseus and Athens, Oxford 1995

Zaidman, L. B. and Pantel, P. S., Religion in the Ancient Greek City, Paris 1989, transl. P. Cartledge, Cambridge/New York 1992