Magic and the Supernatural in the Ancient World

Bibliographies

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Course Information

• Institution: Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Course: CLAS 418: Magic and the Supernatural in the Ancient World (Spring 1998)
• Instructor: Barbette Stanley Spaeth, Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies
• Office: Jones Hall 210A, 862-3078
• Email: spaeth@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
• Office Hours: Tues. and Thurs. 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

General Bibliography

• Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: A Twelve Volume Anthology of Scholarly Articles. 1992. New York. (BF 1563 .A77 1992)
• Burkert, Walter. 1985. Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical. Trans. by J. Raffan. Oxford. BL 782 .B8313 1985b
• Butler, E.M. 1949. Ritual Magic. Cambridge. (133.4 B985R)
• Cavendish, R., ed. 1983. Man, Myth, and Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural. 2nd ed. 12 vols. New York and London. (BF1411 .M25 1983)
• The Classical World Bibliography of Philosophy, Religion, and Rhetoric. 1978. New York. (Z 7129 .G7C58 1978)
• Dodds, E.R. 1951. The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley. (BF1421 .D6 1971)
• Ferguson, John. The Religions of the Roman Empire. Ithaca 1970.
• Frazer, J.G. 1955. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. 3rd ed. 13 vols. New York. (BL310.F7 1955)
• Guthrie, William K. 1955. The Greeks and Their Gods. Boston. BL 781 .G8 1955
• Hastings, J., ed. 1908-1927. Encylopedia of Religion and Ethics. 13 vols. New York.
• Hull, J.M. 1978. Hellenistic Magic and the Synoptic Tradition. Studies in Biblical Theology, 2nd ser., nr. 28. Naperville, Ill.
• Kies, C. 1986. The Occult in the Western World: An Annotated Bibliography. Hamden, Conn.
• Laing, Gordon. 1972. Taboo, Magic, Spirits: A Study of the Primitive Elements in Roman Religion. Westport, Conn. (BL 805 .B8 1972)
• Lowe, J.E. 1929. Magic in Greek and Roman Literature. Oxford.
• Macmullen, R. 1981. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven and London.
• Maus, M. 1972. A General Theory of Magic. London and Boston. (BF1611.M38 1972)
• Melton, J. 1992. Magic, Witchcraft, and Paganism in America: A Bibliography. 2nd ed. New York.
• Merrifield, R. 1987. The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic. New York. (BF1622.E5M47)
• Meyer, M. and P. Mirecki, eds. 1995. Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. Leiden.
• Nilsson, Martin P. A History of Greek Religion.. 1964. 2nd ed. Trans. by F. Fielden. New York. (BL 781 .N53 1964)
• Ogilvie, R.M. 1969. The Romans and Their Gods in the Age of Augustus. London. BL 802 .O36
• Parry, Hugh. 1992. Thelxis : Magic and Imagination in Greek Myth and Poetry. Lanham, Md. (BF 1622 .G8 P37 1992).
• C. Philips, "In Search of the Occult: An Annotated Anthology," Helios 15 (1988) 151-170.
• Romilly, J. de. 1975. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. The N. C. Jackson Lecture. Cambridge, Mass. (Temporary Control Number: AAB3900
• Robbins, R.H. 1981. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York. (133.403 R635e)
• Tavenner, E. 1916. Studies in Magic from Latin Literature. New York. (870.9 T19)
• Thorndike, L. 1923. A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Vol. 1. New York. (Q125 .T52)
• Turcan, R. 1996. The Cults of the Roman Empire. Cambridge, Mass. and Oxford.
• Wardman, A. 1982. Religion and Statecraft among the Romans. 1982. London.

Magic, Superstition, Religion, and Science

• Ben-Yehuda, N. 1985. Deviance and Moral Boundaries: Witchcraft, the Occult, Science, Fiction, Deviant Sciences and Scientists. Chicago. (HM291.B386 1985)
• Lang, A. Magic and Religion. London 1901. (BL 310 .L34 1969)
• Lloyd, G. 1983. Science, Folklore, and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge. (R723.L58 1983)
• ________. 1979. Magic, Reason and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science. Cambridge. (Q127.G7L59)
• Moellering, H. 1962. Plutarch on Superstition. Boston.
• Malinowski, B. 1954. Magic, Science, and Religion. Boston. (GN 8 .M286 1954)
• Phillips, C. 1986. "The Sociology of Religious Knowledge in the Roman Empire," ANRW 2.16.3: 2677-2773. (DG 209 .A86)
• Segal, A. 1981. "Hellenistic Magic: Some Questions of Definition," in Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religion Presented to Gilles Quispel. EPRO 91. Leiden, pp. 349-75. (BT1390.S88)
• Tambiah, S. 1973. "Form and Meaning of Magical Acts: A Point of View,' in Modes of Thought. R. Horton and R. Finnegan, eds. London, pp. 199-229. (BD175.H67)
• Tambiah, S.J. 1990. Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of Rationality. Cambridge. (GN 345 .T36 1990)

Magicians and Shamans

• Apuleius, Apologia
• Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana
  

• Bowie, E. 1978. "Apollonius of Tyana: Tradition and Reality," ANRW 2.16.2 (1978) 1652-99. (DG 209 .A86)
• Burkert, W. 1972. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Translated by E.L. Minar, Jr. Cambridge, Mass. (B243.B813)
• Butler, E. 1948. The Myth of the Magus. Cambridge.
• Gager, J.G. 1972. Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism. SBL Monograph Series 16. Nashville.
• Kingsley, Peter. 1995. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and the Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford. (B 218 .Z7 K56 1995)
• LaVey, Anton Szandor. 1969. The Satanic Bible. New York. (BF1548 .L39 1969)
• Peters, E. 1978. The Magician, the Witch, and the Law. Philadelphia. (BF1593.P42)
• Smith, M. 1978. Jesus the Magician. New York . (BT304.93.S63 1981)

Anthropological Perspectives on Witchcraft

• Douglas, M., ed. 1970. Witchcraft: Confessions and Accusations. New York. (BF 1563 .W56).
• Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1937. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. Oxford. (GN 475.8 .E9)
• Kluckhohn, C. 1989. Navaho Witchcraft. Boston. (E 99 .N3 K55 1989)
• Mair, L. 1969. Witchcraft. New York.
• Middleton, J. ed. 1976. Magic, Witchcraft, and Curing. Austin, Texas. (GN475.M47)
• Murray, M. The God of the Witches. 1960. Garden City, N.Y. (133.4094 M983g)
• ________. 1962. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology. Oxford. (BF1581 .M8 1962)
• Nutini, H. 1993. Bloodsucking Witchcraft : An Epistemological Study of Anthropomorphic Supernaturalism in Rural Tlaxcala. Tucson. ( F 1221 .N3 N87 1993)
• Parrinder, G. 1970. Witchcraft: European and African. London. (BF1566.P3 1970)
• Understanding Withcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia. 1993. ( BF 1584 .A785 U53 1993)

Historical Perspectives on Witchcraft

• Barstow, A.L. 1994. Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts. San Francisco. (CCR5724: Temporary Control Number)
• Brauner, S. 1995. Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews : The Construction of the Witch in Early Modern Germany. Amherst, Mass. (BF 1583 .B73 1995)
• Ehrenreich, B. and D. English. 1973. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Old Westbury, N.Y. (R692.E35 1973)
• Ginsburg, C. 1983. The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. New York. (BL 980 .I8 G5613 1983)
• Godbeer, R. 1992. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England. Cambridge. (BF 1576 .G63 1992)
• Hester, M. 1992. Lewd Women and Wicked Witches: A Study of the Dynamics of Male Domination. London. (HQ 28 .H47 1992)
• Karlsen, C.F. 1987. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York. (BF1576.K37 1987)
• Larner, C. 1984. Witchcraft and Religion: The Politics of Popular Belief. Oxford. (BF1566.L37 1984)
• Rose, E. 1962. A Razor for a Goat: A Discussion of Certain Problems in the History of Witchcraft and Diabolism. Toronto. (133.4 R795R)
• Sanders, Andrew. 1995. A Deed without a Name : The Witch in Society and History. Oxford. (GR 530 .S26 1995)
• Scholz Williams, G, 1995. Defining Dominion: The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany. Ann Arbor. ( BF 1582 .S36 1995)
• Summers, M. 1956. History of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York. (133.4 S955H2)
• Williams, S. and P. 1978. Riding the Night Mare: Women and Witchcraft. New York.
• Willis, D. 1995. Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England. Ithaca, N.Y. (BF 1581 .W55 1995)

Greek and Roman Witches

• Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica.
• Seneca, Medea.
• Theocritus, Idylls.
• Baroja, J. The World of the Witches. 1964. Translated by N. Glendinning. London. (133.4 C292BYG)
• Clauss, J. and S. Hohnston, eds. 1997. Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art. Princeton.
• Yarnall, J. 1994. Transformations of Circe : The History of an Enchantress. Urbana, Ill. (PN 57 .C52 Y37 1994)

Modern Witchcraft

• Adler, M. 1986. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. Rev. ed. Boston. (BF1573.A34 1986)
• Gardner, G. 1984. Witchcraft Today. New York.

Curses, Prayers, and Erotic Spells

• Audollent, A.M.H., ed. 1904. Defixionum Tabellae. Paris. (microfiche)
• Betz, H. 1986. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, including the Demotic Spells. Chicago. (BF1622.G8G74 1986)
• Borghouts, J.F. 1978. Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts. Nisaba 9. Leiden.
• Brashear, W. 1995. "The Greek Magical Papyri: An Introduction and Survey; Annotated Bibliography (1928-1994)." ANRW 2.18.5: 3380-3684. (DG 209 .A86)
• Copenhaver, B.P. 1992. Hermetica. Cambridge. (BF 1600 .H475 1992)
• Gager, J. 1992. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. New York and Oxford. (BF 1558 .C87 1992)
• Griffith, F.L and H. Thompson, eds. 1904. The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden. 3 vols. London.
• Meyer, M. and R. Smith, eds. 1994. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. San Francisco.
• Lain Entralgo, P. 1970. The Therapy of the Word in Classical Antiquity. Trans. by L. J. Rather and J. Sharp. New Haven. (BF 1558 .L313)
• Preisendanz, K. et al., eds. 1928-1941. Papyri Graecae Magicae. 3 vols. Leipzig.
• Ritner, Robert. 1995. "Egyptian Magical Practice Under the Roman Empire: The Demotic Spells and their Religious Context." ANRW 2.18.5: 3333-3379. (DG 209 .A86)
• Versnel, H.S., ed. 1981. Faith, Hope and Worship: Aspects of Religious Mentality in the Ancient World. Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 2. Leiden. (BL790.F3 1981)

Magical Objects and Alchemy

• Andrews, C. 1994. Amulets of Ancient Egypt. Austin, Texas. (DT 62 .A5 A53 1994)
• Bonner, C. 1950. Studies in Magical Amulets Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian. Ann Arbor.
• Budge, E.A.W. 1978. Amulets and Talismans. New York. (398.3 B927aX)
• Faraone, C. 1992. Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual. New York and Oxford. (BF 1561 .F36 1992)
• Holmyard, E.J. 1957. Alchemy. Harmondsworth. (QD13.H64 1968)
• Lindsay, J. 1970. The Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt. London.
• Maloney, C., ed. 1976. The Evil Eye. New York. (GN475.6.E94)
• Naveh, J. and S. Shaked, eds. 1985. Amulets and Magical Bowls: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity. Leiden. (BM729.A4 N38 1985)
• Petrie, W. 1914. Amulets. London. (BF1561 .P4 1972)
• Read, J. 1957. Through Alchemy to Chemistry. London.
• Smith, P. 1994. The Business of Alchemy : Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Princeton. (Q 125.2 .S58 1994)
• Sullivan, L.F. ed. 1989. Hidden Truths: Magic, Alchemy, and the Occult. London and New York.

Drugs and Magic

• Budge, E.A.W. 1971. The Divine Origin of the Craft of the Herbalist. Ann Arbor.
• Detienne, M. 1977. The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology. Trans. by J. Lloyd. London.
• Furst, P., ed. 1972. Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens. New York. (BL65.D7F87: Latin American Library)
• McKenna, T. 1992. Food of the Gods. New York. (HV 5801 .M35 1993)

Demons and Devils

• Apuleius, On the God of Socrates
• Brown, P. 1972. "Sorcery, Demons, and the Rise of Christianity," in Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine. London, pp. 119-146. (BL60.B75 1972B)
• Carus, Paul. 1974. History of the Devil and the Ideas of Evil, from the Earliest Times. New York. (BF1515.C37 1974)
• Davies, T.W. 1898. Magic, Divination, and Demonology among the Hebrews and Their Neighbors. London.
• Ebon, M. 1974. The Devil's Bride: Exorcism Past and Present. New York.
• Messadie, G. 1996. A History of the Devil. New York. (Temporary Control Number: CCW6120)
• Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds : Papers Presented in Honor of Edith Porada. 1987. Mainz on Rhine. (GR825 .M66 1987)
• Oesterreich, T.K. 1930. Possession, Demoniacal and Otherwise, among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times. New York.
• Pagels, E. 1995. The Origin of Satan. New York. (BS 2555.6 .D5 P34 1995)
• Russell, J.B. 1977. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Ithaca, N.Y. (BL480.R86)
• Zandee, J. 1960. Death as an Enemy, According to Ancient Egyptian Conceptions. Leiden. (299.31 Z27Y)

Ghosts

• Bernstein, Alan E. 1993. The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds. Ithaca, New York. (BT 836.2 .B47 1993)
• Cumont, F. 1922. Afterlife in Roman Paganism. New Haven. (292 C971A)
• D'Auria, S. et al. 1988. Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston. (DT59.B6 M86 1988)
• Finucane, R.C. 1982. Appearances of the Dead : A Cultural History of Ghosts. London. (BF1461.F5 1982)
• Garland, Robert. 1985. The Greek Way of Death. Ithaca, N.Y. ( BL795.D4 G37 1985)
• Harmon, Daniel P. 1978. "The Family Festivals of Rome." ANRW 2.16.2: 1592-1603. (DG 209 .A86)
• Hidden futures: Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic World. 1994. (HQ 1073.5 .M478 H53 1994)
• Lang, Andrew. 1980. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts. San Bernardino, Calif.
• Parker, R. 1983. Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion. Oxford 1983. (BL788.P37 1983)
• Richmond, I.A. 1957. Archaeology and the After-life in Pagan and Christian Imagery. London.
• Rohde, E. 1950. Psyche: The Cult of Immortality among the Greeks. Trans. by W.B. Hollis. London. (BL785.R64 1950)
• Rose, H.J. 1941. Manes exite paterni. Berkeley. (480.5 C153p v. 12 no. 6)
• Thompson, C.J. 1974. The Mystery and Lore of Apparitions: with Some Accounts of Ghosts, Spectres, Phantoms and Boggarts in Early Times. Detroit.
• Toynbee, J.M.C. 1971. Death and Burial in the Roman World. London. (DG 103 .T69)

Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, and Revenants

• Auerbach, N. 1995. Our Vampires, Ourselves. Chicago. (GR 830 .V3 A92 1995)
• Baring-Gould, S. 1973. The Book of Werewolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition. New York.
• Barber, P. 1988. Vampires, Burial, and Death : Folklore and Reality. New Haven. (GR830.V3 B35 1988)
• Copper, B. 1977. The Werewolf in Legend, Fact, and Art. New York.
• ________. 1973. The Vampire in Legend, Fact, and Art. London.
• Davis, W. 1988. Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie. Chapel Hill, N.C. (BL2530.H3 D37 1988).
• ________. 1985. The Serpent and the Rainbow. New York. (BL2530.H3D38 1985: Latin American Library)
• Hurbon, L. 1995. Voodoo: Search for the Spirit. New York. (BL 2490 .H874 1995: Latin American Library)
• Masters, A. 1972. The Natural History of the Vampire. New York.
• Summers, M. 1929. The Vampire in Europe. London.
• Woodward, I. 1979. The Werewolf Delusion. London.

Divination

• Bascom, W.R. 1980. Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World. Indianapolis. (BL2480.Y6B37)
• Davies, T.W. 1898. Magic, Divination, and Demonology among the Hebrews and Their Neighbors. London.
• Fontenrose, J. 1978. The Delphic Oracle. Berkeley . (DF261.D35F6)
• Halliday, W.R. 1967. Greek Divination: A Study of Its Methods and Principles. Chicago. (BF1765.H2 1967)
• Hansons, J.S. 1980. "Dreams and Visions in the Graeco-Roman World and Early Christianity." ANRW 2.23.2: 1395-1427. (DG 209 .A86)
• Kolenkow, A.B. 1980. "Relationships between Miracle and Prophecy in the Graeco-Roman World and Early Christianity." ANRW 2.23.2: 1470-1506. (DG 209 .A86)
• Levin, S. 1989. "The Old Greek Oracles in Decline." ANRW 2.18.2: 1599-1649. (DG 209 .A86)
• Lewy, H. 1956. Chaldean Oracles and Theurgy: Mysticism, Magic, and Platonism in the Late Roman Empire. Recherches d'archéologie, de philologie, et d'histoire 13. Cairo.
• Linderski, J. 1986. "The Augural Law." ANRW 2.16.3: 2146-2312. (DG 209 .A86)
• MacBain, B. 1982. Prodigy and Expiation: A Study in Religon and Politics in Republican Rome. Coll. Lat. 177. Brussels. (DG 135 .M23 1982)
• North, John. 1990. "Diviners and Divination at Rome." In Pagan Priests: Religion and Power in the Ancient World. Mary Beard and John North, eds. Ithaca, N.Y., pp. 49-72 (BL 635 .P34 1990).
• Parke, H. 1985. The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor. London. (BL 820 .A7 P37 1985)
• ________. 1967. The Oracles of Zeus. Cambridge, Mass. (BL820.J8P36)
• ________. 1956. The Delphic Oracle. Oxford. (938.3 P237HX)
• ________. 1988. Sibyls and Sybilline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity. New York. (BF 1761 .P37 1988)
• Potter, D. S. 1994. Prophets and Emperors : Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius. Cambridge, Mass. (BF 1768 .P67 1994)

Astrology

• Cramer, F. 1954. Astrology in Roman Law and Politics. Philadelphia. (133.5 C889a)
• Cumont, F. 1912. Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans. New York and London. (BL 721 .C8 1960)
• Lindsay, J. 1971. The Origins of Astrology. London . (BF 1701 .L494 1971b)
• Neugebauer, O.E. and H.B. Van Hoesen. 1959. Greek Horoscopes. Philadelphia.

Miracles

• Aune, D. 1980. "Magic in Early Christianity," ANRW 2.23.2: 1507-57. (DG 209 .A86)
• Grant, R.M. 1952. Miracle and Natural Law in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Thought. Amsterdam. (231.73 G762 N)
• Griffiths, J.G. 1975. Apuleius of Maduaros. The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI). Leiden. (PA6209.M4G7).
• Kee, Howard C. 1983. Miracle in the Early Christian World: A Study in Socio-Historical Method. New Haven. (BL 487 .K43 1983) Kolenkow, A.B. 1980. "Relationships between Miracle and Prophecy in the Graeco-Roman World and Early Christianity." ANRW 2.23.2: 1470-1506. (DG 209 .A86)
• Moule, C.F.D., ed. 1965. Miracles: Cambridge Studies in Their Philosophy and History. Cambridge.
• Witt, R.E. 1971. Isis in the Graeco-Roman World. Ithaca, N.Y. (BL2450.I7 W58)

Supernatural Healing

• Ehrenreich, B. and D. English. 1973. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Old Westbury, N.Y. (R692.E35 1973)
• Edelstein, E.J. and L. 1965. Asclepius: A Collection and Interpretations of the Testimonies. 2 vols. Baltimore. (BL 820 .A4 E37 1988)
• Edelstein, L. 1967. "Greek Medicine in Its Relation to Religion and Magic," in O. Tempkin and C. L. Tempkin, eds., Ancient Medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Baltimore, pp. 205-246 (R135 .E3)
• Ghalioungui, P. 1963. Medicine and Magic in Ancient Egypt. London.
• Hand, W. 1986. Magical Medicine. Berkeley. (GR880.H35)
• Majno, G. 1975. The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World. Cambridge, Mass. (R135.M34R135.M34)
• Middleton, J. ed. 1976. Magic, Witchcraft, and Curing. Austin, Texas. (GN475.M47)

Mystery Cults

• Bianchi, Ugo. 1976. The Greek Mysteries. Leiden. (N7760 .B5)
• Burkert, Walter. 1987. Ancient Mystery Cults. Cambridge, Mass. and London.
• Campbell, Joseph, ed. 1955. The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Vol. 2. New York. (BF 1003 .E73 vol. 2)
• Cumont, Franz V. 1911. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism. Chicago. (292 C971o)
• Dodds, E.R. 1951. The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley.
• Ferguson, John. 1982. Encyclopedia of Mysticism and Mystery Religions. New York. (BL 625 .F43 1982)
• Festugière, A. J. 1954. Personal Religion among the Greeks. Berkeley. (880.8 C153s v. 26)
• Godwin, Joscelyn. 1981. Mystery Religions in the Ancient World. San Francisco. (BL 610 .G3 1981)
• Grant, Frederick C. 1953. Hellenistic Religions: The Age of Syncretism. New York. (BL 96 .G7)
• Martin, Luther. 1987. Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction. New York and Oxford. (BL 722 .M33 1987)
• Metzger, Bruce M. 1987. "A Classified Bibliography of the Graeco-Roman Mystery Religions 1924-1973, with a Supplement 1974-1977." ANRW 2.17.3, 1259-1423. (DG 209 .A86 vol.2 pt.17 no.3)
• Meyer, M. ed. 1978. The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook. Pittsburgh.
• Nock, A.D. 1933. Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo. Oxford . (291 N758c)
• Rostovzeff, Michael I. 1927. Mystic Italy. New York. (292 R839m)
• Reitzenstein, Richard. 1978. Hellenistic Mystery-Religions. Their Basic Ideas and Significance. Trans. by J. Steely. Pittsburgh.
• Teixidor, Javier. 1977. The Pagan God. Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East. Princeton.
• Turcan, R. 1996. The Cults of the Roman Empire. Cambridge, Mass. and Oxford.
• Vermaseren, M.J. 1979. Studies in Hellenistic Religions. Leiden. (BL 790 .S78)
• Willoughby, Harold R. 1929. Pagan Regeneration. A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World. Chicago.