Books!

A non-exhaustive list of the books that I own and/or have on my wishlist (more added with the help of those that shared their own lists.)

Hellenic/Hellenistic Texts

• Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Daniel Ogden
• The Orphic Hymns - Apostolos N. Athanassakis
• Hounds and Hunting in Ancient Greece - D B Hull
• The Hunt in Ancient Greece - Judith M Barringer
• The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece - Marguerite Rigoglioso
• Death and the Maiden: Girls’ Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology
• Ancient Greek Divination - Sarah Iles Johnston
• The Homeric Hymns - Diane Rayor
• Hekate’s Liminal Rites - Sorita D’Este
• The Cattle of the Sun: Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks - Jeremy McInerney
• Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence - Carl Kerenyi
• Death in the Greek World: from Homer to the Classical Age - M S Mirto
• Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion - Robert Parker
• Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults - Michael B Cosmopoulos
• The Seer in Ancient Greece - Michael Flower
• Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets - Fritz Graf
• Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate’s Roles - Sarah Iles Johnston
• Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times - Thomas Martin
• The Long Journey Home: Re-Visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone for Our Time - Christine Downing
• Guide to Greece: Central Greece - Pausanias
• Cult of Aphrodite: Rites and Festivals of the Golden One - Laurelei Black
• Queen of the Sacred Way: A Devotional Anthology in Honor of Persephone - Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology for Hekate - Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• Religions of the Hellenistic Roman Age - Antonia Tripolitis
• Ancient Greek Religion - Jon D Mikalson
• Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times - Thomas R Martin
• The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World - John Boardman
• Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts - Georg Luck
• The Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and Mysteries of Eleusis - C G Jung
• Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece - Joan Breton Connelly
• The Greek Way of Death - Robert Garland
• The Gods of the Greeks - Carl Kerenyi
• Religion in the Ancient Greek City - Louise Bruit Zaidman
• Religions of the Ancient Greeks - Simon Price
• Greek and Roman Sexualities: A Sourcebook - Jennifer Larson
• The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity - Stephanie Lynn Budin
• Worshipping Aphrodite: Art and Cult in Classical Athens
• The Cults of the Greek States - Lewis Richard Farnell
• Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean - Maryline Parca & Angeliki Tzanetou
• A Beginner’s Guide to Hellenismos - Timothy Jay Alexander
• Ancient Greek Cults - Jennifer Larson
• Kharis: Hellenic Polytheism Explored - Sarah Kate Istra Winter
• From Cave to Sky: A Devotional Anthology in Honor of Zeus - Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• Aphrodite - Monica S Cyrino
• Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore - Jennifer Larson
• Magic in the Ancient Greek World - Derek Collins
• Greek Religion - Walter Burkert
• The Works & Days - Hesiod
• The Theogony - Hesiod
• Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Sun, Moon & Hunt - Sorita D’Este
• Goddess, Whores, Wives & Slaves - Sarah B Pomeroy

Near East & Mesopotamia

• Inanna - Samuel Noah Kramer & Diane Wolkstein
• Whisper of Stone: Natib Qadish - Modern Canaanite Religion
• Queen of the Great Below: An Anthology in Honor of Ereshkigal
• Anoited: A Devotional Anthology for the Deities of the Near and Middle East - Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• The Epic of Gilgamesh - Penguin Classics
• Ancient Mesopotamia - Susan Pollock
• Sumer and the Sumerians - Harriet Crawford
• Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia - Jeremy Black
• The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character - Samuel Noah Kramer

Other

• Dwelling on the Threshold: Reflections of a Spirit-Worker and Devotional Polytheist - Sarah Kate Istra Winter
• Voodoo in Haiti - Alfred Metraux
• New Orleans Voodoo Handbook - Kenaz Filan