Bibliography of Mythology

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Interpretation, Analysis, and Comparative Studies

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Bremmer, J., ed. Interpretations of Greek Mythology.

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Burkert, Walter. Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual.

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Detienne, Marcel. The Creation of Mythology.

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Edmunds, Lowell, ed. Approaches to Greek Myth.

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Fontenrose, Joseph. The Ritual Theory of Myth.

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Frazer, James G. The New Golden Bough.

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Graf, Fritz. Greek Mythology: An Introduction.

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Kirk, G. S. Myth: Its Meaning and Function in Ancient and Other Cultures.

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---. The Nature of Greek Myths.

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Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind.

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---. The Raw and the Cooked.

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Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale.

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Sebeok, T. A., ed. Myth: A Symposium.

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Solmsen, Friedrich. Hesiod and Aeschylus.

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Thompson, Stith. Motif-index of Folk-literature.

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Vernant, J.-P. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece.

Myth, Religion, and the Occult

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Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion.

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---. Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth.

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Detienne, Marcel, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks.

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Guthrie, W. K. C. The Greeks and Their Gods.

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Luck, Georg, ed. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds.

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Malinowski, B. Magic, Science and Religion.

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Nilsson, M. P. A History of Greek Religion. 2nd ed.

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---. The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology.

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Parker, Robert. Athenian Religion: A History.

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Tyrrell, Wm. Blake, and Frieda S. Brown. Athenian Myths & Institutions: Words in Action.

Myth and Psychology

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

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Eisner, Robert. The Road to Daulis: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and Classical Mythology.

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Evans, Richard I. Dialogue with C. G. Jung. 2nd ed.

Women and Mythology

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Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece.

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Clark, G. Women in the Ancient World.

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Fantham, Elaine. "Women in Antiquity: A Selective (and Subjective) Survey." Échos du Monde Classique 30 (1986): 1-24.

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---, et al. Women in the Classical World.

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Foley, Helen P., ed. Reflections of Women in Antiquity.

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---, ed. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays.

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Helios 12.2. (1985). Also other issues of this journal.

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Lefkowitz, Mary R. Women in Greek Myth.

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Pantel, Pauline Schmitt, ed. A History of Women: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints.

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Peradotto, J. J., and J. P. Sullivan, eds. Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers.

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Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves.

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Winkler, John J. Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece.

Historical Background

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Bury, J. B., and Russell Meiggs. A History of Greece. 4th ed.

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Cambridge Ancient History. 3rd ed. Vols. 1 and 2.

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Chadwick, John. The Mycenaean World.

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Finley, M. I. Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages. Rev. ed.

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---. The World of Odysseus. Rev. ed.

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Hurwit, Jeffrey M. The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.

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Vermeule, Emily. Greece in the Bronze Age.

Iconographic and Literary Sources

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Boardman, John. Athenian Black Figure Vases.

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---. Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period.

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---. Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period.

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Carpenter, T. H. Art and Myth in Ancient Greece.

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Gantz, Timothy. Early Greek Myth.

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Rasmussen, Tom, and Nigel Spivey, eds. Looking at Greek Vases.

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Shapiro, H. A. Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece.

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