This is a list of articles that I have found most useful in
my recent research. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and I will add more as
time permits. For ease of use, I have arranged them by subject matter. I feel that a list of articles is just as important as a list of books,
and maybe even more so, as one can find more up-to-date scholarship in articles.
On Greek Religion in General
Antonopoulous, Anna, “The Double Meaning of Hestia: Gender, Spirituality and Signification in Antiquity,”
Women and Language 16, 1993, pp. 1-6.
Beattie, A. J., “An early Laconian Lex Sacra,” Classical
Quarterly 1, 1951, pp. 46-58.
Bowie, A. M., “Greek Sacrifice: Forms and Functions,” in
The Greek World, ed. A. Powell, Routledge, New York, 1995, pp. 463-482.
Bremmer, Jan, “Greek Maenadism Reconsidered,” Zeitschrift fur
Papyrologie und Epigraphik55, 1984, pp. 267-286.
Bremer, Jan-Maarten, “The Reciprocity of Giving and
Thanksgiving in Greek Worship,” in Reciprocity in Ancient Greece, ed. C.
Gill et al., Oxford, 1998, pp. 127-137.
Burkert, Walter, “The Meaning and Function of the
Temple in Classical Greece,” in Temple in Society, ed. M. V. Fox,
Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, 1988, pp. 27-47.
Burkert, Walter. “Athenian Cults and Festivals,”
in Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 5, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press,
Cambridge,1992, pp. 245-267.
Burkert, Walter, “Concordia Discors: The Literary and the Archaeological
Evidence on the Sanctuary of Samothrace,” in Greek
Sanctuaries: New Perspectives. Edited by N. Marinatos and R. Hagg,
Routledge, New York, 1993, pp. 178-191.
Burkert, Walter, “From Epiphany to Cult Statue: Early Greek Theos”in
A. B. Lloyd, What is a God? Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity,
Duckworth, 1997, pp. 15-34. Burkert, Walter, “The Logic of Cosmology,” in From
Myth to Reason: Studies in the Development of Greek Thought, ed. R.
Buxton, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 87-106.
Burkert, Walter, “Jason, Hypsipyle, and New Fire at Lemnos:
A Study in Myth and Ritual,” in Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, ed.
R. Buxton, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
Carter, Jane Burr. “Ancestor Cult and the Occasion of
Homeric Performance.” In The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend
Vermeule. Edited by J. B. Carter, et al. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1995.
285-312.
Cassidy, William, “Dionysos, Ecstasy, and the
Forbidden,” Historical Reflections 17, 1991, pp. 23-44.
Connor, W.R., “Tribes, Festivals, and Processions: Civic
Ceremonial and Political Manipulation in Archaic Greece,” in Oxford Readings
in Greek Religion, ed. R. Buxton, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2000.
Corbett, P.E. “Greek Temples and Greek Worshippers: The
Literary and Archaeological Evidence,” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical
Studies of the University of London 17, 1970, pp. 149-158.
Craik, Elizabeth, “Diet, Diata, and Dietetics,” in The
Greek World, ed. A. Powell, Routledge, New York, 1995, pp. 387-402.
Davison, John A. “Notes on the Panathenaea,” Journal of
Hellenic Studies 78, 1958, pp. 23-42.
Depew, Mary, “Reading Greek Prayers,” Classical
Antiquity 16, 1997, pp. 229- 258.
Frost, Frank J., “The Rural Demes of Attica,” in The Archaeology of Athens and Attica
under the Democracy, eds. Coulson, Palagaia, Shear, Shapiro, and Frost,
Oxbow Monograph 37, Oxford, 1994, pp. 173-174. Garland, R. S. J. “Geras Thanontôn: An Interpretation in the Claims of the Homeric Dead,” Ancient Society 17, 1984-86, pp.5-22.
Garland, Robert, “Priests and Power in Classical Athens,”
in Pagan Priests: Religion and Power in the Ancient World, eds. M.
Beard and J. North, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1990, pp. 73-91.
Gernet, L. “Ancient Feasts.” In The Anthropology of
Ancient Greece, Baltimore, 1981, pp. 13-47.
Graf, Fritz, “The Locrian Maidens,” in Oxford Readings
in Greek Religion, ed. R. Buxton, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2000.
Hague, R. “Marriage Athenian Style,” Archaeology 41.3, 1988.
Havelock, Erick, “Thoughtful Hesiod,” Yale Classical Studies 20, 1966, pp.
61-72. Henrichs, Albert, “Greek Maenadism from Olympias to
Messalina,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 82, 1978, pp.
121-160.
Henrichs, Albert, “Human Sacrifice in Greek Religion: Three Case Studies,” in Le sacrifice dans
l'antiquitè . Rudhardt and Reverdin (eds.), Entretiens sur l'Antiquitè
classique 27, Vandoeuvres, Geneva, 1981, pp. 195-242.
Jameson, Michael H., “Sacrifice and Ritual:
Greece,” in Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome.
Edited by M. Grant and R. Kitzinger, Scribners, New York, 1988, pp. 959-979.
Johnston, Sarah Iles. “Crossroads,” Zeitschrift fur
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 88, 1991, pp. 217-224.
Kearns, Emily, “Order, Interaction, Authenticity: Ways of
Looking at Greek Religion,” in The Greek World, ed. A. Powell, Routledge, New York, 1995, pp. 511-529.
Keller, Katherine Zepantis, “Gender, Myth and Memory: Ethnic Continuity in
Greek-American Narrative,” MELUS (Society for the Study of the
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) 20, 1995, pp. 47-65.
King, Helen, “Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women” in
Images of Women in Antiquity, Cameron & Kuhrt (eds.), Wayne State
University Press, Detroit, 1983. pp. 109-127. Kirk, Geoffrey S. “Some Methodological Pitfalls in the
Study of Ancient Greek Sacrifice (In Particular).” In Le sacrifice dans
l'antiquitè . Rudhardt and Reverdin (eds.), Entretiens sur l'Antiquitè
classique 27, Vandoeuvres, Geneva, 1981, pp. 41-90.
Lonsdale, Steven. “A Dancing Floor for Ariadne (Iliad
18.590-592): Aspects of Ritual Movement in Homer and Minoan Religion,” in The
Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule, eds. Carter & Morris, University of Texas Press,
Austin, 1995, pp. 273-284.
Mayor, Adrienne, "Bibliography of Classical Folklore Scholarship: Myths,
Legends, and Popular Beliefs of Ancient Greece and Rome," Folklore 111,
1990, pp. 123-138.
Mills, H., “Greek Clothing Regulations: Sacred and Profane?” ZPE 55, 1984,
pp. 255-265
Neils, Jennifer, “Reconfiguring the Gods on the Parthenon Frieze,” Art
Bulletin 81 no 1, 1999, pp. 6-21.
Osborne, Robin, “Women and Sacrifice in Classical Greece,”
Classical Quarterly 43, 1993, pp. 392-405.
Parker, Robert, “Pleasing Thighs: Reciprocity in Greek
Religion” in Reciprocity in Ancient Greece, ed. C. Gill et al., Oxford,
1998, pp. 105-126.
Parker, Robert, “Greek States and Greek Oracles,” in
Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, ed. R. Buxton, Oxford University
Press, Oxford, 2000.
Poe, John Park, “The Altar in the Fifth-Century Theater,”
Classical Antiquity 8, 1989, pp. 116-139.
Rose, Herbert J, “The Religion of a Greek Household,”
Euphrosyne 1, 1957, pp. 95-116.
Syfroeras, Pavlos, “Fireless Sacrifices: Pindar’s
Olympian 7 and the Panathenic Festival,” American Journal of Philology
114, 1993, pp. 1-26.
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christine, “Early Sanctuaries, the Eighth
Century and Ritual Space: Fragments of a Discourse,” in Greek Sanctuaries:
New Perspectives. Edited by N. Marinatos and R. Hagg, Routledge, New
York, 1993, pp. 1-17.
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane, “What is Polis
Religion?” in Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, ed. R. Buxton,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane, “Further Aspects of Polis
Religion,” in Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, ed. R. Buxton,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
Van Straten, Folkert, “Votives and Votaries in Greek
Sanctuaries,” in Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, ed. R. Buxton,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
Versnel, H. S. “Greek Myth and Ritual: The Case of Kronos,”
in Interpretations of Greek Mythology. Edited by J. N. Bremmer, Barnes
and Noble, Totowa, 1986, pp. 121-152.
Wagenvoort, H., “The Journey of the Souls of the Dead to
the Isles of the Blessed,” Mnemosyne 24, 1971, pp. 113-161.
Williams, Charles Kaufman, “The City of Corinth and its
Domestic Religion,” Hesperia 50, 1981, pp. 408-421.
Wilson, R. McL., “Gnosis and the Mysteries,” in Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic
Religions Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of his 65th
Birthday, eds. R. van den Broek and M.J. Vermaseren, E.J. Brill, Leiden,
1981, pp. 451-457.
Zeitlin, Froma I., “Cultic Models of the Female: Rites of
Dionysus and Demeter,” Arethusa 15, 1982, pp. 129-157.
On Persephone, Demeter, and/or the Eleusinian Mysteries
Bookidis, Nancy. “Ritual Dining at Corinth,” in Greek
Sanctuaries: New Perspectives. Edited by N. Marinatos and R. Hagg,
Routledge, New York, 1993, pp. 45-61.
Clinton, Kevin, “The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at
Eleusis,” in Greek Sanctuaries: New Perspectives. Edited by N. Marinatos
and R. Hagg, Routledge, New York, 1993, pp. 110-124.
Clinton, Kevin, “The Eleusinian Mysteries and Panhellenism in Democratic Athens,” in The Archaeology of Athens and Attica
under the Democracy, eds. Coulson, Palagaia, Shear, Shapiro, and Frost,
Oxbow Monograph 37, Oxford, 1994, pp. 161-172.
Clinton, Kevin, “Stages of Initiation in the Eleusinian and Samothracian
Mysteries,” in Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek
Secret Cults, ed. Cosmopoulos, Routledge, New York, 2003, pp. 50-78.
Cole, Susan Guettel, “Demeter in the Ancient Greek City and
its Countryside,” in Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, ed. R.
Buxton, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
Cosmopoulos, Michael, “Mycenaean Religion at Eleusis: the Architecture and
Stratigraphy of Megaron B,” in Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of
Ancient Greek Secret Cults, ed. Cosmopoulos, Routledge, New York, 2003, pp.
1-24.
Curbera, J. B., “Chthonians in Sicily,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 38, 1997, pp. 397-408.
DeBloois, Nanci, “Rape, Marriage, or Death? Gender
Perspectives in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” Philological Quarterly
76, 1997, pp. 245-262.
Dowden, Ken. “Grades in the Eleusinian Mysteries,” Revue
de l'Histoire des Religions 197, 1980, pp. 409-27.
Graf, Fritz, “Lesser Mysteries -- Not Less Mysterious,” in Greek
Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults, ed.
Cosmopoulos, Routledge, New York, 2003, pp. 241-262.
Lincoln, Bruce. “The Rape of Persephone: A Greek Scenario of Women’s Initiation.” Harvard Theological Review 72, 1979,
pp. 223-35.
Metzger, B., “Classified bibliography of the Graeco-Roman mystery religions 1924-1973 (with a supplement 1974-1977)” in
Bd.17, Teilbd.3 of Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt, pp. 1362-1371, 1416-1417.
Otto, Walter, “The Meaning of the Eleusinian Mysteries,” in The
Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Princeton University Press,
Princeton, 1971, pp. 14-31.
Parker, Robert, “The Hymn to Demeter and the Homeric Hymns,”
Greece & Rome 38, 1991, pp. 1-17.
Robertson, Noel, “Heracles’ ‘Catabasis’,” Hermes 108, 1980, pp. 274-299.
Rose, Herbert J, “The Grief of Persephone,” Harvard Theological Review
36, 1943, pp. 247-250. (Could also be classified under "Orphism.")
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane, “Persephone and
Aphrodite at Locri: A Model for Personality Definitions in Greek Religions,” In
‘Reading’ Greek Culture: Texts and Images, Rituals and Myths. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1991, pp. 147-188.
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane, “Reconstructing Change: Ideology and the
Eleusinian Mysteries,” in Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism,
Periodization, and the Ancient World, eds. M. Golden and P. Toohey,
Routledge, New York, 1997, pp. 132-164.
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane, “Festival and Mysteries: Aspects of the
Eleusinian Cult,” in Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient
Greek Secret Cults, ed. Cosmopoulos, Routledge, New York, 2003, pp. 25-49.
Voutiras, Emmanuel, “Euphemistic Names for the Powers of
the Nether World,” in The World of Ancient Magic: Papers from the First
International Samson Eitrem Seminar at the Norwegian Institute at Athens,
4-8 May 1997, eds. D. Jordan, H. Montgomery and E. Thomassen, Norwegian Institute at Athens,
Bergen, 1999, pp. 73-82.
Walton, Francis, “Athens, Eleusis, and the Homeric Hymn to
Demeter,” Harvard Theological Review 45, 1952, pp. 105-114.
On Orphism
Bikerman, E. “The Orphic Blessing,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 2, 1938-1939, p. 368-374.
Bremmer, J., “Rationalization and Disenchantment in Ancient Greece:
Max Weber among the Pythagoreans and Orphics?”, From
Myth to Reason: Studies in the Development of Greek Thought, ed. R.
Buxton, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, pp. 71-83.
Bremmer, Jan, “Orphism, Pythagoras, and the Rise of the
Immortal Soul,” in The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife: The 1995 Read-Tuckwell
Lectures at the University of Bristol, Routledge, New York, 2002, pp. 11-26.
Burkert, Walter, “Craft Versus Sect: The Problem of Orphics
and Pythagoreans,” in Jewish and Christian Self-Definition: Volume Three -
Self-Definition in the Greco-Roman World, ed. B. Meyer and E.P. Sanders,
Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1982, pp. 1-22.
Burkert, Walter, “Bacchic Teletai in the Hellenistic Age,” in Masks
of Dionysus, ed. T. Carpenter and C. Faraone, Cornell
University Press, Ithaca, 1993, pp. 259-275.
Cole, Susan Guettel, “Voices from Beyond the Grave:
Dionysus and the Dead,” in Masks of Dionysus, ed. T. Carpenter and
C. Faraone, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1993, pp. 276-295
Delbrueck, R. and Vollgraff, W., “An Orphic Bowl,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 54, 1934, pp. 129-139.
Downey, G., “The ‘Pure’ Meadow,” Class. Phil. 26, 1931, pp. 94-97.
Edmonds, Radcliffe, “Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few
Disparaging Remarks on Orphism and Original Sin,” Classical Antiquity
8:1, 1999, pp. 35-73.
Edwards, M.J., “Gnostic Eros and Orphic Themes”,
Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 88,1991, pp. 25-40.
Finkelberg, A., “On the Unity of Orphic and Milesian Thought,” Harvard Theological Review 79, 1986, pp. 321-335.
Gernet, Louis., “Dionysos and Dionysiac Religion:
Inherited Elements and Original Traits,” in The Anthropology of Ancient
Greece, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1981, pp. 48-70.
Graf, Fritz, “Dionysian and Orphic Eschatology: New Texts
and Old Questions,” in Masks of Dionysus, ed. T. Carpenter and
C. Faraone, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1993, pp. 239-258.
Guthrie, W. K. C., “Who Were the Orphics?” Scientia 61, 1937, pp. 110-120.
Guthrie, W. K. C., “The Pre-Socratic World-Picture,” Harvard Theological Review 45, 1952, pp. 87-104.
Hoffmann, R., “Ritual License and the Cult of Dionysos,” Athenaeum 67, 1989, pp. 91-115.
Janko, Richard, “Forgetfulness in the Golden Tablets of
Memory” Classical Quarterly 34, 1984, pp. 89-100.
Janko, Richard, “An unnoticed MS of Orphic Hymns 76-77”
Classical Quarterly 35,1985, pp. 518-20.
Janko, Richard. “The Physicist as Hierophant:
Aristophanes, Socrates and the Authorship of the Derveni Papyrus,”
Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 118, 1997, pp. 61-94.
Janko, Richard, “The Derveni Papyrus (Diagoras of Melos,
Apopyrgizontes Logoi?): a New Translation,” Classical Philology
96, 2001, pp. 1-32 .
Janko, Richard, “The Derveni Papyrus: An Interim Text,”
Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141, 2002, pp. 1-62.
Laks, André, “Between Religion and Philosophy: The Function
of Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus”, Phronesis 42, 1997, pp. 121-142.
Leisegang, Hans, “The Mystery of the Serpent,” in The Mysteries: Papers
from the Eranos Yearbooks, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1971, pp.
194-260.
Luck, Georg, “King Midas and the Orphic Mysteries,” in
Ancient Pathways & Hidden Pursuits: Religion, Morals, and Magic in the Ancient
World, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2000, pp. 8-15.
Morand, A-F., “Orphic Gods and Other Gods,” in What is a God? Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity,
ed. A. B. Lloyd, Duckworth, 1997, pp. 169-181.
Most, Glenn W., “The Fire Next Time. Cosmology,
Allegories, and Salvation in the Derveni Papyrus”, Journal of Hellenic
Studies 117, 1997, pp. 117-135.
Nilsson, Martin, “Early Orphism and Kindred Movements,”
Harvard Theological Review 28, 1935, pp. 181-230.
Nock, A. D., “Orphism or Popular Philosophy?” Harvard Theological Review 33, 1940, pp. 301-315.
Parker, Robert, “Early Orphism,” in The Greek World,
ed. A. Powell, Routledge, New York, 1995, pp. 483-510.
Robertson, Noel, “Orphic Mysteries and Dionysiac Ritual,” in Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek
Secret Cults, ed. Cosmopoulos, Routledge, New York, 2003, pp. 218-240.
Tierney, Michael, “A New Ritual of the Orphic Mysteries,” Classical Quarterly 16, 1922, pp. 77-87.
Tierney, Michael, “The Origins of Orphism,” The Irish Theological Quarterly 17, 1922, pp. 112-127.
Tsekourakis, Damianos, “Orphic and Pythagorean Views on Vegetarianism in Plutarch’s Moralia,” Miscellenea Plutarchea:
Atti del I convegno di studi su Plutarco
Ferrara, 1986, pp. 127-138.
Van Amersfoort, J., “Traces of an Alexandrian Orphic
Theogony in the Psuedo-Clementines,” in Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic
Religions Presented to Gilles Quispel on the Occasion of his 65th
Birthday, eds. R. van den Broek and M.J. Vermaseren, E.J. Brill, Leiden,
1981, pp. 13-30.
West, M.L., “Graeco-Oriental Orphism in the 3rd cent. BC,” in Assimilation et résistence
à la culture
Gréco-romaine dans le monde ancient: Travaux du VIe Congrès International
d'Etudes Classiques, ed. Pippidi, Madrid, 1974, Bucuresti-Paris, 1976, pp. 221-226.
Wili, Walter, “The Orphic Mysteries and the Greek Spirit,” in The
Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Princeton University Press,
Princeton, 1971, pp. 64-92.
On the “Villa of the Mysteries”
Bergmann, B., “Greek Masterpieces and Roman Recreative
Fictions,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 97, 1995, pp. 79-120.
Brendel, O. J., “The Great Frieze in the Villa of the
Mysteries,” in The Visible Idea: Interpretations of Classical Art,
Decatur House Press, Washington D.C., 1980, pp. 90-138.
Davis, Jessica, “The Search for the Origins of the Villa of the Mysteries
Frieze,” in The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern
Muse, ed. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and University of Michigan
Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 200, pp. 83-97.
de Grummond, Elizabeth, “Bacchic Imagery and Cult Practice in Roman Italy,”
in The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse,
ed. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and University of Michigan Museum of
Art, Ann Arbor, 200, pp. 74-82.
Gazda, Elaine, “Introduction: Ancient and Modern Contexts of the Bacchic
Murals in the Villa of the Mysteries,” in The Villa of the Mysteries in
Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, ed. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of
Archaeology and University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 200, pp. 1-13.
Hammer, Catherine, “Women, Ritual, and Social Standing in Roman Italy,” in
The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, ed.
Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and University of Michigan Museum of Art,
Ann Arbor, 200, pp. 38-49.
Henderson, J., “Footnote: Representation in the
Villa of the Mysteries,” In Art and Text in Roman Culture, ed. Elsner,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 234-76.
Lehmann, K., “Ignorance and Search in the Villa of the Mysteries,” Journal of Religious Studies 52,
pp. 62-8, 1962.
Kirk, Shoshanna, “Nuptial Imagery in the Villa of the Mysteries Frieze: South
Italian and Sicilian Precedents,” in The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii:
Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, ed. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 200, pp. 98-115.
Kirkpatrick, Diane, “Ancient Mysteries, Modern Meanings,” in The Villa of
the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, ed. Gazda, Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology and University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 200,
pp. 138-150.
Longfellow, Brenda, “A Gendered Space? Location and Function of Room 5 in the
Villa of the Mysteries,” in The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient
Ritual, Modern Muse, ed. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and University
of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 200, pp. 24-37.
Longfellow, Brenda, “Liber and Venus in the Villa of the Mysteries,” in
The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, ed.
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Mudie Cooke, P. B., “The Paintings of the Villa Item at Pompeii,” Journal of Religious Studies 3,
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Nilsson, M. P., “The Bacchic Mysteries of the
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Reis, P., “The Villa of the Mysteries: Initiation in to Woman’s Midlife Passage,” Continuum 1(3),
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Seaford, R. 1981. “The Mysteries of Dionysos at
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Swetnam-Burland, Molly, “Bacchus/Liber in Pompeii: A Religious Context for
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Wilburn, Drew, “The God of the Vine: A Note on Nomenclature,” in The Villa
of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse, ed. Gazda, Kelsey
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Wilburn, Drew, “The God of Fertility in Room 5 of the Villa of the
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Zuntz, Gunther, “On the Dionysiac Fresco in the Villa dei
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On Alexander the Great
Edmunds, Lowell, “The Religiosity of Alexander,” in
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On Theurgy and/or Alchemy
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und Epigraphik
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Flint, Valerie, “The Demonisation of Magic and Sorcery in
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of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1999, pp. 277-348.
Fowler, Robert, “Greek Magic, Greek Religion,” in Oxford
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Luck, Georg, “Theurgy and Forms of Worship in
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On Ephesian Artemis
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