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Classics and Ancient History

Reading List

Introductory Reading List

Students are expected to read material in addition to the lectures, particularly from the bibliographies provided on the handouts each week. You do not need to read everything listed on the bibliographies but select according to your interests.

 

  • Alcock, S. and R. Osborne (eds). 1993. Placing the Gods, Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece.
  • Bremmer, J. N. 1994. Greek Religion. Greece & Rome. New Surveys in the Classics, No. 24. Oxford.
  • Bruit-Zaidman, L. and P. Schmitt-Pantel. 1992. Religion in the Ancient Greek City. Cambridge.
  • Burkert, W. 1985. Greek Religion. Harvard.
  • Burkert, W. 1987. “Offerings in perspective: surrender, distribution, exchange”, in T. Linders and G Nordquist (eds.) Gifts to the Gods. Uppsala.
  • Burkert, W. 1987. Ancient Mystery Cults. Harvard.
  • Burkert, W. 1995. Homo Necans: the anthropology of ancient Greek sacrificial ritual and myth. Berlin.
  • Buxton, R. 200. Oxford Readings in Greek Religion. Oxford.
  • Cavanagh, M.B. 1996. Eleusis and Athens: documents in finance, religion and politics in the fifth century BC. Atlanta.
  • Clinton, K. 1996. ‘The Thesmophorion in central Athens and the celebration of the Thesmophoria in Attica’, in R. Hägg (ed) The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis: 111-125. Stockholm.
  • Clinton, K. 1992. Myth and Cult: the iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Stockholm.
  • Cole, S. G. 2000. ‘Demeter in the ancient Greek city and its countryside’ in Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, R. Buxton (ed): 133-154.
  • Cosmopoulos, M. 2002. Greek Mysteries. The Archaeology of Ancient Greek secret cults. London.
  • de Polignac, F. 1995. Cults, Territory and the Origins of the Greek city-state. Translated by J. Lloyd. Chicago.
  • Detienne, M. and J-P Vernant. 1989. The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks.
  • Dillon, M. 2001. Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion. London.
  • Easterling, P. and J. Muir (eds). 1985. Greek Religion and Society. Cambridge.
  • Eidinow, E. and J. Kindt. 2016. Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion. Oxford.
  • Fontenrose, J. 1978. The Delphic Oracle: its responses and Operations with a catalogue of responses. California.
  • Emerson, M. 2007. Greek Sanctuaries: an introduction. Bloomsbury.
  • Garland, R. 1985. The Greek Way of Death. Cornell.
  • Hägg, R. 1998. (ed.) Ancient Greek Cult Practice from the Archaeological Evidence. Proceedings of the Fourth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens, 22-24 October 1993.
  • Haysom, M. and J. Wallenstein (eds). 2011. Current Approaches to religion in ancient Greece.
  • Hughes, D. 1991. Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece. London.
  • Insoll, T. 2004. Archaeology, Ritual, Religion. New York.
  • Kurtz, D. and J Boardman. 1971. Greek Burial Customs.
  • Larson, J. 2016. Understanding Greek Religion: A Cognitive Approach. London.
  • Marinatos, N. and R. Hägg (eds.) 1993. Greek Sanctuaries: New approaches.
  • Mee, C. and A. Spawforth. 2001. Greece: The Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford.
  • Mili, M. 2015. Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly.
  • Morgan, C. 1990. Athletes and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the Eighth Century BC.
  • Morgan, C. 1989. “Divination and Society at Delphi and Didyma” Hermathena 147: 17-42.
  • Mylonas, G. 1961. Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries.
  • Neils, J. (ed). 1992. Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens. Princeton.
  • Ogden, D. (ed). 2007. Blackwell Companion to Greek Religion. London.
  • Papantoniou, G., C. Morris and A. Vionis. 2019. Unlocking sacred landscapes: spatial analysis of ritual and cult in the Mediterranean. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, 151. Nicosia:
  • Parker, R. 1996. Athenian Religion: a history. Oxford.
  • Parker, R. 2005. Polytheism and Society at Athens.
  • Pedley, J.G. 2005. Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge.
  • Price, S. 1985. “Delphi and Divination” in Easterling, P. and J. Muir (eds). 1985. Greek Religion and Society. Cambridge: 128-154.
  • Price, S. 1999. Religions of the Ancient Greeks. Cambridge.
  • Raschke, W. (ed.) 1988. The Archaeology of the Olympics: Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity. Wisconsin.
  • Osborne, R. 2004. “Hoards, votives, offerings: the archaeology of the dedicated object” in R. Osborne (ed.) The Object of Dedication. World Archaeology1 2004
  • Osborne, R. 1993. “Women and Sacrifice in Classical Greece”, Classical Quarterly 43: 392-405
  • Raja, R. and J. Rüpke, (eds.) 2015. A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World. Wiley Blackwell.
  • Renfrew, C. 2007. "The Archaeology of Ritual, of Cult, and of Religion," in E. Kyriakidis (ed), The Archaeology of Ritual. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press: 109-122.
  • Scott, M. 2010. Delphi and Olympia: The Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Periods. Cambridge.
  • Scott, M. 2014. Delphi: A History of the Centre of the Ancient World.
  • Spawforth, A. 2006. The Complete Greek Temples. London.
  • van Straten, T. 2000. “Votaries and Votives in Greek Sanctuaries” in R Buxton (ed.) Oxford Readings in Greek Religion: 191-223.
  • Wescoat, B. and R. Ousterhout (eds). 2012. Architecture of the Sacred. Cambridge.
  • Tomlinson, R., A. 1976. Greek Sanctuaries. London.
  • Whitley, J. 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge.
  • Wightman, G. J. 2001. Sacred Spaces: Religious Architecture in the Ancient World. Leuven.

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