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This is an ever-growing recommended reading list on Hellenismos, Hellenic polytheistic practice.
Note: I have read and/or own every single book on this list.
For those interested in discussing the theology of Hellenismos, particularly in relation to what it means for us in this day and age to be a Hellenist, I recommend VERY highly the Hellenismos_Theology emailing list.
Greek Religion
Lesley Adkins & Roy A. Adkins, Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece
Walter Burkert, Greek Religion
Walter Burkert, Homo Necans
Drew Campbell, Old Stones, New Temples
Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Life
Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Death
Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Hesiod, Theogony; Works and Days
Homer, Homeric Hymns
Homer, The Iliad
Homer, The Odyssey
Karl Kerenyi, Gods of the Greeks
Karl Kerenyi, Religion of the Greeks and Romans
Fritz Graf, Greek Mythology
W.T.C. Guthrie, The Greeks and their Gods
Mary Lefkowitz, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths
Jon D. Mikalson, Athenian Popular Religion
Martin P. Nilsson, Greek Folk Religion
Walter Otto, The Homeric Gods
H. W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians
Robert Parker, Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
Solon's Precepts and Maxims of the Seven Sages
Sarah Kate Istra Winter, Kharis: Hellenic Polytheism Explored
Greek Gods
Apollo
Karl Kerenyi, Apollo: The Wind, the Spirit, and the God
Jon Soloman, Apollo: Origins and Influences
Athena
Karl Kerenyi, Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion
Demeter and Persephone
Karl Kerenyi, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
Dionysos
Karl Kerenyi, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructable Life
Walter Otto, Dionysus: Myth and Cult
Nonnos, Dionysiaca I, II, and III
Hermes
Karl Kerenyi, Hermes: Guide of Souls
Greek Mysteries
Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults
U. Bianchi, The Greek Mysteries (Iconography of Religions Section 17, Greece and Rome)
Linda Fierz-David, Women's Dionysian Initiation: The Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii (Jungian Classics Series ; 11)
Karl Kerenyi, Eleusis
Mavin Meyer, The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World
Carl Ruck, The Road To Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
Greek Mysticism, Magic, and Theurgy
Hans Betz, Greek Magical Papyri in Translation
E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational
Christopher Faraone, et al, Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion
Fritz Graf, Magic in the Ancient World
Iamblichus, On the Mysteries
Sarah Iles Johnson, Hekate Soteira
Peter Kingsley, Ancient Philosophers, Mysteries, and Magic
Peter Kingsley, In Dark Places of Wisdom
Peter Kingsley, Reality
Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi
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