CLAS 104: Bibliography
compiled by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan

A listing of works of potential interest, intended to supplement the bibliographies provided by the course textbooks.

Handbooks and Reference Works

• Aarne, A., and S. Thompson. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. Helsinki, 1961.
• *Ackermann, H.C., J.-R. Gisler, et al., ed. Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae. Zürich, 1981-
• Bell, R. E. Place-Names in Classical Mythology. Santa Barbara, 1989.
• Bell, R.E. Women of Classical Mythology. Santa Barbara, 1991.
• Campbell, J. Historical Atlas of World Mythology. London, 1984.
• *Frazer, J.G., ed. Apollodorus, The Library. 2 vols. Cambridge [Mass.], 1921.
• *Frazer, J.G., tr. and comm. Pausanias' Description of Greece. London, 1898.
• Gantz, T. Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Baltimore, 1993.
• Hansen, W. Ariadne's thread: a guide to international tales found in classical literature. Ithaca, 2002.
• Leick, G. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. London, 1991.
• Price, S., and E. Kearns, eds. The Oxford dictionary of classical myth and religion. New York and Oxford, 2004.
• *Rose, H.J. A Handbook of Greek Mythology. 6th ed. London, 1958.
  • revised version: R. Hard, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (based on H.J. Rose's Handbook of Greek Mythology). London and New York, 2004.
• Smith, R. Mythologies of the World: A Guide to Sources. Urbana, 1981.
• Thompson, S. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Bloomington, 1955-1958.
• *Tripp, E. Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology. New York, 1988.

Approaches to Myth

• *Bremmer, J., ed. Interpretations of Greek Mythology. London, 1987.
• Chase, R. The Quest for Myth. Baton Rouge, 1949.
• *Csapo, E. Theories of Mythology. Malden, 2005.
• Cunningham, A., ed. The Theory of Myth: Six Studies. London 1973.
• Dundes, A., ed. Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth. Berkeley, 1984.
• *Edmunds, L., ed. Approaches to Greek Myth. Baltimore, 1990
• Feldman, B., and R.D. Richardson, eds. The Rise of Modern Mythology. Bloomington, 1972.
• Kirk, G.S. "Aetiology, Ritual, Charter: Three Equivocal Terms in the Study of Myths," Yale Classical Studies 22 (1972) 83-102.
• Kirk, G.S. "Greek Mythology: Some New Perspectives," Journal of Hellenic Studies 92 (1972) 74-85.
• Kirk, G.S. Myth. Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures. Berkeley, 1970.
• Kirk, G.S. The Nature of Greek Myths. Harmondsworth, 1974.
• Puhvel, J. "The Study of Myth," in idem, Comparative Mythology (Baltimore, 1987) 7-20.
• Sebeok, T.A., ed. Myth: A Symposium. Sixth edition. Bloomington, 1958.
• Segal, R.A. "In Defense of Mythology: The History of Modern Theories of Myth," Annals of Scholarship 1 (1980) 3-49.
• Smith, P. "The Nature of Myths," Diogenes 82 (1973) 70-87.
• Strenski, I. Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History: Cassirer, Eliade, Lévi-Strauss, and Malinowski. London, 1987.
• *Wender, D. "The Myth of Washington," Arion n.s. 3 (1976) 71-78. [Reprinted in A. Dundes, ed., Sacred Narrative (Berkeley, 1984) 336-42.]

Myth in Ancient Art

• *Ackermann, H.C., J.-R. Gisler, et al., ed. Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae. Zürich, 1981-
• Agard, W.R. Classical Myths in Sculpture. Madison, 1951.
• Arafat, K.W. Classical Zeus: A Study in Art and Literature. Oxford, 1990.
• Bérard, C. et al., eds. A City of Images. Princeton 1989.
• Boardman, J. "Herakles, Theseus and Amazons," in D.C. Kurtz and B. Sparkes, eds., The Eye of Greece: Studies in the Art of Athens (Cambridge, 1982) 1-28.
• Buitron-Oliver, D., et al. The Odyssey and Ancient Art. An Epic in Word and Image. New York, 1992.
• Buitron-Oliver, D., ed. New Perspectives In Early Greek Art. Washington, D.C., 1991.
• Burn, L. The Meidias painter. Oxford, 1987.
• Camp, J.M. Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora. Athens, 1980.
• *Carpenter, T.H. Art and Myth in Ancient Greece. London, 1990.
• Carpenter, T.H. Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art. Oxford, 1986.
• Carpenter, T.H. Summary Guide to Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Oxford, 1984.
• *Cohen, B. Not the classical ideal: Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art. Leiden, 2000.
• Colligan, M. Manual of Myth in Relation to Greek Art. New Rochelle, 1982.
• Dipla, A. "Eos and the Youth: A Case of Inverted Roles in Rape," Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 9.2 (2009) 109-33.
• Edwards, M. "Representation of Maenads on Archaic Red-figure Vases," Journal of Hellenic Studies 80 (1960) 78-87.
• Francis, E.D. Image and Idea in Fifth Century Greece. London, 1990.
• Friis Johansen, K. The Iliad in Early Greek Art. Copenhagen, 1967.
• Gardner, E.A. Religion and Art in Ancient Greece. Port Washington [N.Y.], 1969.
• Harrison, J.E. Ancient Art and Ritual. New York, 1913.
• Harrison, J.E. Myths of the Odyssey in Art & Literature. London, 1882.
• *Henle, J. Greek Myths: A Vase Painter's Notebook. Bloomington [Ind.], 1973.
• Hinks, R.P. Myth and Allegory in Ancient Art. Nendeln [Liechtenstein], 1968.
• Impelluso, L. Gods and Heroes in Art. Los Angeles, 2002.
• Matheson, S.B. Polygnotos And Vase Painting In Classical Athens. Madison, 1995.
• McNally, S. "The Maenad in Early Greek Art," in J. Peradotto and J.P. Sullivan, eds., Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers (Albany, 1984) 107-42.
• Moore, M. "Athena and Herakles on Exekias' Calyx-Krater," American Journal of Archaeology 90 (1986) 35-39.
• North, H. From Myth to Icon: Reflections of Greek Ethical Doctrine in Literature and Art. Ithaca, 1979.
• Prag, A.J.N.W. The Oresteia. Iconographic and Narrative Tradition. Warminster, 1985.
• *Rasmussen, T. and N. Spivey, eds. Looking at Greek Vases. Cambridge, 1991.
• Schefold, K.F.J. Myth and Legend in Early Greek Art. New York, 1966
• Schefold, K. Gods And Heroes In Late Archaic Greek Art. Cambridge and New York, 1992.
• Shapiro, H.A. Myth into art: poet and painter in classical Greece. London and New York, 1994.
• Shapiro, H.A. "Painting, Politics and Genealogy: Peisistratos and the Neleids," in W.G. Moon, ed., Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (Madison, 1983) 87-96.
• Shapiro, H.A. "The Origins of Allegory in Greek Art," Boreas 9 (1986) 4-23.
• Shapiro, H.A. Art and Cult Under the Tyrants in Athens. Mainz, 1989.
• Smith, A.H. "The Making of Pandora," Journal of Hellenic Studies 11 (1890) 278-83.
• Sourvinou-Inwood, C. 'Reading' Greek Culture: Texts and Images, Rituals and Myths. Oxford, 1991.
• Sourvinou-Inwood, C. "Myths and Images: Theseus and Medea as a Case Study," in L. Edmunds, ed., Approaches to Greek Myth (Baltimore, 1990) 393-445.
• Sourvinou-Inwood, C. Theseus as Son and Stepson. A Tentative Illustration of the Greek Mythological Mentality. London, 1979.
• Stewart, A. "Stesichorus and the François Vase," in W.G. Moon, ed., Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (Madison, 1983) 53-74.
• Vermeule, Emily. 1987. Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Sather Classical Lectures 46. Berkeley-Los Angeles.
• Vollkommer, R. Herakles in the Art of Classical Greece. Oxford, 1988.
• Walsh, D. Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting: The World of Mythological Burlesque. Cambridge and New York, 2009.
• Woodford, S. The Trojan War In Ancient Art. Ithaca, 1993.

Greek Myths in Later Art, Literature, and Film

[See, in particular, the journal Classical and Modern Literature (PN 883 C54): the third fascicle of each volume presents a useful annotated bibliography of recent work.]

• Aske, M. Keats and Hellenism. Cambridge, 1985.
• Barkan, L. The Gods Made Flesh. Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism. New Haven, 1986. [modern art]
• Belli, A. Ancient Greek Myths and Modern Drama. New York, 1969.
• Bloomberg, K.M.M. Tracing Arachne's web: myth and feminist fiction. Gainesville, 2001.
• Bulman, J.C. "The Woman and Greek Myth: Bond's Theatre of History," Modern Drama 29 (1986) 505-15.
• Carlsen, H. "'What Fools these Mortals Be!': Ovid in A Midsummer Night's Dream," in G.D. Ca’e and H. Nørgaard, eds., A Literary Miscellany Presented to Eric Jacobsen (Copenhagen, 1988) 94-107.
• Clark, R. Catabasis. Amsterdam, 1979.
• Colakis, M. "The House of Atreus Myth in the Seventies and Eighties: David Rabe's The Orphan and Joyce Carol Oates's Angel of Light," Classical and Modern Literature 9 (1989) 125-30.
• Feder, L. Ancient Myth in Modern Poetry. Princeton, 1972.
• Freedman, L. The Revival Of The Olympian Gods In Renaissance Art. Cambridge and New York, 2003.
• Freiert, W.K. "Classical Myth in Contemporary American Fiction," Classical and Modern Literature 10 (1989) 47-61.
• Fyler, J.M. Chaucer and Ovid. New Haven and London, 1979.
• Gayley, C.M. The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art. Boston, 1911.
• Griffin, J. Mirror of Myth: Classical Themes & Variations. London, 1986.
• Harding, D.P. Milton and the Renaissance Ovid. Urbana [Ill.], 1946.
• Haskell, F. Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture. New Haven, 1981.
• Lotspeich, H.G. Classical Mythology in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser. Princeton, 1932.
• Martindale, C. Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, 1988.
• Martindale, C. Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity. London, 1990.
• McCall, J.P. Chaucer among the Gods: The Poetics of Classical Myth. University Park, 1979.
• Munich, A.A. Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art. New York, 1989.
• Nash, J. Veiled Images: Titian's Mythological Paintings for Philip II. Philadelphia, 1985.
• Nicholson, K.D. Turner's Classical Landscapes: Myth and Meaning. Princeton, 1990.
• Norton, D.S. Classical Myths in English Literature. New York, 1952.
• Osgood, C.G. The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems. New York, 1964.
• Pierce, J.S. From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History. Englewood Cliffs, 1968.
• Preston, P. A Dictionary of Pictorial Subjects from Classical Literature. New York, 1983.
• Reid, J.D. The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1900s. New York, 1993.
• Revard, S.P. "L'Allegro and Il Penseroso: Classical Tradition and Renaissance Mythography," PMLA 101 (1986) 338-50.
• Seznec, J. The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythical Tradition and its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art. New York, 1953.
• Smith, E. A Dictionary of Classical Reference in English Poetry. Totowa [N.J.], 1984.
• Smith, S.H. "Twentieth-Century Plays Using Classical Mythic Themes: A Checklist," Modern Drama 29 (1986) 110-34.
• Solomon, J. The Ancient World in Cinema. New York, 1978.
• Steadman, J.M. Milton's Biblical and Classical Imagery. Pittsburgh, 1984.
• Taylor, A.B., ed. Shakespeare's Ovid: the Metamorphoses in the plays and poems. Cambridge and New York, 2000.
• Whalley, J. On The Bravery of Women: The Ancient Amazon and her Modern Counterparts. PhD thesis: Victoria University of Wellington, 2010.
• Wheeler, C.F. Classical Mythology in the Plays, Masques, and Poems of Ben Jonson. Port Washington [N.Y.], 1970.
• Winkler, M.M. "Classical Mythology and the Western Film," Comparative Literature Studies 22 (1985) 516-40.
• Winkler, M.M., ed. Classics and Cinema. Lewisburg, 1991.
• Wood, C. Olympian Dreamers: Victorian Classical Painters, 1860-1914. London, 1983.

Miscellaneous Works of Potential Interest

• Ackerman, R. J.G. Frazer: His Life and Work. Cambridge, 1988.
• Ackerman, R. The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists. New York and London, 1991.
• Albersmeier, S., ed. Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. Baltimore, 2009.
• Alexopoulou, M. The Theme of Returning Home in Ancient Greek Literature: The Nostos of the Epic Heroes. Lewiston, 2009.
• Arthur, M. "Politics and pomegranates. An interpretation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter," Arethusa 10 (1977) 7-48.
• Bamberger, J. "The Myth of Matriarchy," in M. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere, eds., Women, Culture and Society (Stanford, 1974) 213-30.
• Barthes, R. Mythologies. London, 1972.
• Bernal, M. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. 2 vols. New Brunswick [N.J.], 1987.
• Bertolín Cebrián, R. Comic Epic and Parodies of Epic: Literature for Youth and Children in Ancient Greece. Hildesheim and New York, 2008.
• Bettelheim, B. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York, 1976.
• Bishop, P., ed. Nietzsche and antiquity: his reaction and response to the classical tradition. Rochester, 2004.
• Bremmer, J.N. "What Is a Greek Myth?" in idem, ed., Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Totowa, 1986) 1-9.
• Brisson, L. How philosophers saved myths: allegorical interpretation and classical mythology. Chicago, 2004.
• Broege, V. "Archetypal views of women in classical mythology and modern literature," EMC 17 (1973) 12-23.
• Burkert, W. Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1979.
• Burkert, W. Greek Religion. Oxford, 1985.
• Burkert, W. Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Berkeley-Los Angeles.
• Buxton, R. Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology. Cambridge, 1994.
• Buxton, R. Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis. Oxford and New York, 2009.
• Cahill, J. Her kind: stories of women from Greek mythology. Peterborough, 1995.
• Calder, W.M., III, ed. The Cambridge Ritualists Reconsidered. Atlanta, 1991.
• Carpenter, R. Folktale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics. Berkeley, 1958.
• Davies, M. The Epic Cycle. Bristol, 1989.
• De Grummond, N.T. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. Philadelphia, 2006.
• Detienne, M., and J.-P. Vernant. Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society. Atlantic Highlands [NJ], 1978.
• Doherty, L.E. Gender and the interpretation of classical myth. London, 2001.
• Dundes, A., ed. The Flood Myth. Berkeley, 1988.
• Edmunds, L. Oedipus. The Ancient Legend and its Later Analogues. Baltimore, 1985.
• Eller, C. "Sons of the Mother: Victorian Anthropologists and the Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory," Gender & History 18.2 (2006) 285-310.
• Eller, C. The myth of matriarchal prehistory: why an invented past won't give women a future. Boston, 2000.
• Foley, H.P. The Homeric hymn to Demeter: translation, commentary, and interpretive. Princeton, 1994.
• Frye, N., and J. Macpherson. Biblical and classical myths: the mythological framework of Western culture. Toronto and Buffalo, 2004.
• Frye, Northrop. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. New York 1981.
• Galinsky, G.K. Ovid's Metamorphoses. Berkeley, 1975.
• Galinsky, G.K. The Herakles Theme. New Jersey, 1972.
• Glenn, J. "Pandora and Eve: Sex as the Root of all Evil," Classical World 71 (1977) 179-85.
• Green, P. From Ikaria to the stars: classical mythification, ancient and modern. Austin, 2004.
• Gresseth, G.K. "The Gilgamesh Epic and Homer," Classical Journal 70 (1975) 1-18.
• Gresseth, G.K. "Ancient Greek folktales. Courting types," Texas Stud. in Lit. & Lang. 15 (1974) 903-13.
• Harrison, J.E. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. Second edition. Cambridge, 1908.
• Hayden, B. "Old Europe. Sacred matriarchy or complementary opposition?" in A. Bonanno, ed., Archaeology and fertility cult in the ancient Mediterranean (Amsterdam, 1986) 17-30.
• Hersey, G.L. Falling in Love with Statues: Artificial Humans from Pygmalion to the Present. Chicago and London, 2009.
• Keuls, E.C. The Reign of the Phallus. New York, 1985.
• Lefkowitz, M.R. Women in Greek Myth. Baltimore 1986.
• Lefkowitz, M.R. Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths. New Haven, 2003.
• Lehoux, D. "Drugs and the Delphic Oracle," CW 101 (2007) 41-56.
• Lévi-Strauss, C. Anthropology and Myth. Oxford, 1987.
• Lévi-Strauss, C. Myth and Meaning. Toronto, 1978.
• Lévi-Strauss, C. The Raw and the Cooked. New York, 1969.
• Lévi-Strauss, C. The Naked Man: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, 4. New York, 1981.
• Littleton, C.S. The New Comparative Mythology: An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumézil. Third edition. Berkeley-Los Angeles, 1982.
• Lloyd, S. The Archaeology of Mesopotamia. Revised edition. London, 1984.
• Maguire, L. Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood. Chichester and Malden, 2009.
• Malinowski, B. "The Role of Myth in Life," in A. Dundes, ed., Sacred Narrative (Berkeley, 1984) 193-206.
• Malinowski, B. Magic, Science and Religion. New York, 1955.
• Malinowski, B. Myth in Primitive Psychology. Westport, 1971.
• Malinowski, B. Sex, Culture and Myth. New York, 1962.
• Marler, J. "The Myth of Universal Patriarchy: A Critical Response to Cynthia Eller's Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory," Feminist Theology 14.2 (2006) 163-87.
• Monaghan, P. Women in Myth and Legend. London, 1981.
• Mylonas, G.E. Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Princeton 1961.
• Nagy, G. Greek Mythology and Poetics. Ithaca, 1990.
• Nilsson, M.P. The Mycenaean Origins of Greek Mythology. Second edition. Berkeley, 1972.
• O'Brien, J. "Nammu, Mami, Eve and Pandora. 'What's in a name?'" Classical Journal 79 (1983) 35-45.
• O'Flaherty, W.D. Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts. Chicago, 1980.
• Page, D.L. Folktales in Homer's Odyssey. Cambridge [Mass.], 1973.
• Panofsky, D. and E. Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol. New York, 1956.
• Parke, H.W. Festivals of the Athenians. London, 1977.
• Partenie, C. Plato's Myths. Cambridge and New York, 2009.
• Pembroke, S.G. "Women in Charge: The Function of Alternatives in Early Greek Tradition and the Ancient Idea of Matriarchy," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 30 (1967) 1-35.
• Phipps, W.E. "Eve and Pandora Contrasted," Theology Today 45 (1988) 34-48.
• Pomeroy, S.B. "A Classical Scholar's Perspective on Matriarchy," in B.A. Carroll, ed., Liberating Women's History (Urbana, 1976) 217-33.
• Pritchard, J.B. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Third edition. Princeton, 1969.
• Propp, V. Morphology of the Folktale. 2nd ed. Austin, 1968.
• Puhvel, J. Comparative Mythology. Baltimore, 1987.
• Richardson, N.J., ed. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Oxford, 1974.
• Amy Richlin, A. "Reading Ovid's Rapes," in A. Richlin, ed., Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (Oxford, 1992) 158-79
• Robinson, A. The life and work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford, 2002.
• Segal, R.A. Joseph Campbell: An Introduction. New York, 1990.
• Shepard, A., and S.D. Powell, eds. Fantasies of Troy. Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Toronto, 2004.
• Siegel, J. The Coens' O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Homer's Odyssey," Mouseion 7 (2007) 213-45.
• Slater, P.E. The Glory of Hera: Greek Mytholgy and the Greek Family. Boston, 1968.
• Sourvinou-Inwood, C. Athenian Myths & Festivals: Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia. Oxford and New York, 2011.
• Stanford, W.B. The Ulysses Theme. Second edition. Oxford, 1963.
• Thomas, C.G. "Matriarchy in early Greece. The Bronze and Dark Ages," Arethusa 6 (1973) 173-95.
• Tigay, J.H. The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic. Philadelphia, 1982.
• Tyrrell, W.B. Athenian Myths and Institutions. Oxford, 1991.
• Vernant, J.-P. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece. Brighton 1980 (Paris 1974).
• Vernant, J.-P. Myth and Thought among the Greeks. London 1983.
• Veyne, P. Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths? Chicago, 1988. (Les Grecs ont-ils cru a leurs mythes? Essai sur l'imagination constituante. Paris.)
• Vickery, J.B. "The Golden Bough: Impact and Archetype," in B. Slote, ed., Myth and Symbol (Lincoln, 1963) 174-96.
• Vidal-Naquet, P. The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World. Baltimore, 1986.
• Visser, M. "Medea: Daughter, Sister, Wife and Mother. Natal Family versus Conjugal Family in Greek and Roman Myths about Women," in M. Cropp, E. Fantham and S.E. Scully eds., Greek Tragedy and its Legacy (Calgary, 1986) 149-65.
• Walcot, P. Hesiod and the Near East. Cardiff 1966.
• Wallace, H.N. The Eden Narrative. Atlanta, 1985.
• Webster, P. "Matriarchy: A New Vision of Power," in R.R. Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women (New York, 1975) 141-56.
• West, M. L., ed. Hesiod, Works and Days. Oxford, 1978.
• West, M.L., ed. Hesiod's Theogony. Oxford 1966.
• West, M.L. Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Oxford, 2007.
• Wilfong, M.M. "Genesis 2:18-24: Creation of Woman," Interpretation 42 (1988) 58-63.
• Yohannan, J. Joseph and Potiphar's Wife in World Literature. New York, 1968.

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