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Children's Books

  • Aliki. The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
  • Carter, Dorothy and Michele Chessare. His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut<
  • Christensen, James. Voyage of the Basset
  • Cole, Joanna and Bruce Degan. Ms Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt (Magic School Bus series)
  • Colum, Padraic. The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
  • Coolidge, Olivia. The Trojan War
  • Craft, Charlotte M. Cupid and Psyche
  • Foster, Genevieve. Augustus Caesar's World
  • Friesner, Esther M. Nobody's Princess
  • Gates, Doris. Two Queens of Heaven
  • Gregory, Kristiana. Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 BC (The Royal Diaries series)
  • Gurney, James. Dinotopia
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales
  • Holub, Joan and Nonna Aleshina. Cleopatra and the King's Enemies: Based on a True Story of Cleopatra in Egypt (Ready to Read series)
  • Kindl, Patrice. Lost in the Labyrinth
  • Kingsley, Charles. The Heroes; or Greek Fairy Tales
  • Lasky, Kathryn. The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
  • Lawrence, Caroline. The Roman Mysteries series
  • MacGregor, Mary. The Story of Greece
  • Martin, Claire. The Race of the Golden Apples
  • Mayer, Marianna and KY Craft. Pegasus
  • Muten, Burleigh. Goddesses: A World of Myth and Magic
  • Orgel, Doris. We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera
  • Osborne, Mary Pope. Hour of the Olympians (Magic Tree House #16)
  • Osborne, Mary Pope. Mummies in the Morning (Magic Tree House #3)
  • Osborne, Mary Pope. Vacation Under the Volcano (Magic Tree House #13)
  • Peck, Richard. Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death
  • Richardson, Donald. Hercules and Other Legends of Gods and Heroes
  • Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
  • Spretnak, Charlene. Lost Goddesses of Early Greece
  • Stanley, Diane. Cleopatra.
  • Yolen, Jane. Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast
  • Yolen, Jane. Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons
  • Yolen, Jane. Jason and the Gorgon's Blood
  • Yolen, Jane. Odysseus and the Serpent Maze

Comics/Graphic Novels

  • Benjamin, Paul and Steven Cummings. Pantheon High
  • Covey J (ed.) Beasts! A Pictorial Schedule of Traditional Hidden Creatures from the Interest of 90 Modern Artisans
  • Crane IV, Walter. Sheba Volume One: The Sands of Seth
  • Ennis, Garth and Phil Winslade. Goddess
  • Goscinny, Rene and Albert Uderzo. Asterix and Cleopatra.
  • Goulart, Ron. Great American Comic Books
  • Ishida, Tatsuya. SinFest: Dance of the Gods
  • Moore, Alan and Gene Ha. Top Ten
  • Moore, Alan and JH Williams III. Promethea
  • Morse, Scott and Lou Romano and Don Shank and Nate Wragg. The Ancient Book of Myth and War
  • Robbins, Trina and Colleen Doran and Jackson Guice. Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story
  • Rucka Greg and JG Jones. Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia
  • Rudnicki, Stefan and Harlan Ellison. Imaginings: An Anthology of Visionary Literature Volume One: After the Myths Went Home
  • Shanower, Eric. Age of Bronze
  • Shinohara, Chie. Red River
  • Smylie, Mark. Artesia
  • Weir, Christina and Nunzio DeFilippis and Christopher Mitten. The Tomb
  • Williams, Aaron. The Nodwick Chronicles  

Egyptian History and Religion

  • Bonnefoy, Yves. Greek and Egyptian Mythologies
  • Budge EA Wallis. The Book of the Dead
  • Budge, EA Wallis. Egyptian Magic
  • Dreyfus, Renee. Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
  • Falconer, Colin. When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra
  • Jacq, Christian. The Judge of Egypt series
  • Jacq, Christian. The Queen of Freedom series
  • Jacq, Christian. The Ramses series
  • Jones, Prudence. Cleopatra: A Sourcebook
  • Mahfouz, Naguib. Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom, Rhaopis of Nubia, Thebes at War
  • Mertz, Barbara. Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
  • Peters, Elizabeth. The Amelia Peabody series
  • Pollard, Justin. The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
  • Pomeroy, Sarah B. Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra
  • Porter, Dorothy. Akhenaten
  • Robinson, Lynda. The Lord Meren Mysteries series
  • Schwarz-Bart, Simone (ed.). In Praise of Black Women Volume One: Ancient African Queens
  • Shafer, Byron. Religion in Ancient Egypt
  • Shaw, Ian. The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
  • Tyldesley, Joyce. Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh
  • Tyldesley, Joyce. Nefertiti: Egypt’s Sun Queen
  • Walker, Susan and Peter Higgs. Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
  • Witt, RE. Isis in the Ancient World 

Greek History and Religion

  • Aeschylus. The Complete Greek Tragedies Volume One and Volume Two
  • Apollodorus. The Library of Greek Mythology
  • Athanassakis, Apostolos. The Homeric Hymns
  • Barnes, Craig. In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization
  • Bell, Robert. Women of Classical Mythology
  • Blundell, Sue. The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece
  • Bonnefoy, Yves. Greek and Egyptian Mythologies
  • Brown, Norman. Hermes the Thief
  • Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion
  • Buxton, Richard. Oxford Readings in Greek Religion
  • Cahill, Thomas. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
  • Calasso, Roberto. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
  • Callimachus. Aetia, Iambi, Hecale, and Other Fragments
  • Cosmopoulos, MB (ed.). Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults
  • Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade
  • Euripides. Ten Plays by Euripides
  • Fantham, Elaine. Women in the Classical World
  • Faraone, Christopher and Dirk Obbink. Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion<
  • Furley, William. Greek Hymns: Selected Cult Songs from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period: Greek Texts and Commentary
  • Garland, Robert. Religion and the Greeks
  • Gordon, Richard. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Volume Two: Ancient Greece and Rome<
  • Greenwood, Kerry. Medea
  • Harrison, Jane Ellen. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
  • Hawley, Richard. Women in Antiquity
  • Herodotus. The Histories
  • Hesiod. Works and Days/Theogony
  • Homer. The Iliad
  • Homer. The Odyssey
  • James, Vanessa. The Genealogy of Greek Mythology
  • Johnston, Sarah Iles. Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination
  • Johnston, Sarah Iles. Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead
  • Kerenyi, Karl. The Gods of the Greeks
  • Kerenyi, Karl. Hermes: Guide of Souls
  • Kraemer, Ross Shephard. Her Share of the Blessings: Women’s Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
  • Larson, Jennifer. Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore
  • Lightman, Marjorie. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women
  • Lonsdale, SH. Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion
  • Luck, George. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds
  • Morford, Mark. Classical Mythology
  • Paris, Ginette. Pagan Grace: Dionysus, Hermes and Goddess Memory in Daily Life
  • Paris, Ginette. Pagan Meditations: Aphrodite, Hestia, Artemis
  • Plato. The Complete Works
  • Pressfield, Steven. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
  • Pressfield, Steven. The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
  • Price, Simon. The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion
  • Radice, Betty. Who's Who In The Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics
  • Sappho. Sappho: A New Translation
  • Streep, Peg. Sanctuaries of the Goddess
  • Taylor-Perry, Rosemarie. The God Who Comes: Dionysian Mysteries Revisited
  • Unsworth, Barry. The Songs of the Kings
  • Von Rudloff, Robert. Hekate in Ancient Greek Religion
  • Wheelwright, Philip. The PreSocratics 

Roman History and Religion

  • Adkins, Lesley. Dictionary of Roman Religion
  • Adkins, Lesley. Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
  • Beard, Mary. Religions of Rome
  • Bell, Robert. Women of Classical Mythology
  • Bonnefoy, Yves. Roman and European Mythologies
  • Fantham, Elaine. Women in the Classical World
  • Fox, Robin Lane. Pagans and Christians: Religion and the Religious Life from the Second to the Fourth Century AD When the Gods of Olympus Lost Their Dominion and Christianity, With the Conversion of Constantine, Triumphed in the Mediterranean World
  • Hawley, Richard. Women in Antiquity: New Assessments
  • Hoffman, Joseph. Celsus: On the True Doctrine
  • Johnston, Sarah Iles. Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead
  • Kleiner, Diana. I Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome
  • Klingaman, William. The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman
  • Klossowski, Pierre. Diana at Her Bath/ The Women of Rome
  • Kraemer, Ross Shephard. Her Share of the Blessings: Women’s Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
  • Lightman, Marjorie. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women
  • Luck, George. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds
  • Morford, Mark and Robert Lenardon. Classical Mythology
  • Nagle, Betty Rose. Ovid’s Fasti
  • Ovid. Heroides
  • Ovid. The Metamorphoses
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece
  • Price, Simon. The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion
  • Quintus Smynaeus. The Fall of Troy
  • Radice, Betty. Who's Who In The Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics
  • Tripolitis, Antonia. Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age
  • Turcan, Robert. The Cults of the Roman Empire
  • Valantasis, Richard. Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice
  • Vidal, Gore. Julian
  • Witt, RE. Isis in the Ancient World 

Contemporary Spirituality

  • Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon
  • Barrett, David. The New Believers: Sects, Cults and Alternative Religions
  • Campbell, Drew. Old Stones, New Temples: Ancient Greek Paganism Reborn
  • Canan, Janine. She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets
  • Clifton, Chas. Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America
  • Crowley, Vivian. Thorsson’s Principles of Paganism
  • Davy, Barbara Jane. Introduction to Pagan Studies
  • Diotima. Refuge: Tales of Myth and Magick
  • Diotima. Banish with Laughter: Essays on Myth and Magick
  • Downing, Christine. The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine
  • Downing, Christine. Gods in Our Midst: Mythological Images of the Masculine
  • Eller, Cynthia. Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America
  • Ellis, Normandi. Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn
  • Greer, John Michael. A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry Into Polytheism
  • Harvey, Andrew. The Divine Feminine: Exploring the Feminine Face of God Around the World
  • Harvey, Graham. Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth
  • Harvey, Graham. Paganism Today: Wiccans, Druids, the Goddess and Ancient Earth Traditions for the Twenty-First Century
  • Hirshfield, Jane. Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
  • Hopman, Ellen. People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out
  • Mascetti, Manuela Dunn. Goddess Wisdom
  • Muten, Burleigh. Her Words: An Anthology of Poetry About the Great Goddess
  • Paper, Jordan. The Deities Are Many: A Polytheistic Theology
  • Paris, Ginette. Pagan Grace: Dionysus, Hermes and Goddess Memory in Daily Life
  • Paris, Ginette. Pagan Meditations: Aphrodite, Hestia, Artemis
  • Pike, Sarah. Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community
  • Robertson, JM. Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology
  • Ward, Tim. Savage Breast: One Man's Search for the Goddess 

General References

  • Ann, Martha and Dorothy Myers Imel. Goddesses in World Mythology
  • Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. Dictionary of Women in Religious Art
  • Armstrong, Karen. A Short History of Myth
  • Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years
  • Baring, Anne. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
  • Benard, Elizabeth and Beverly Moon (eds.). Goddesses Who Rule
  • Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Gods in Every Man
  • Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Every Woman
  • Bonheim, Jalaja. Goddess: A Celebration in Art and Literature
  • Bulfinch, Thomas. A Book of Myths
  • Bull, Malcolm. The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods
  • Cahill, Susan. Wise Women: Over 2000 Years of Spiritual Writing by Women
  • Campbell, Joseph. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
  • Campbell, Joseph. Occidental Mythology
  • Carson, Anne. Goddesses and Wise Women: The Literature of Feminist Spirituality 1980-1992
  • Davies, Glenys. Polytheistic Systems
  • Eliot, Alexander. The Global Myths: Exploring Primitive, Pagan, Sacred and Scientific Mythologies
  • Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth
  • Gadon, Elinor. The Once and Future Goddess
  • Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History
  • Hall, Nor. The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine
  • Harpur, James. The Atlas of Sacred Places
  • Humphrey, Caroline and Piers Vitebsky. Sacred Architecture
  • Johnson, Buffy. The Lady of the Beasts: The Goddess and Her Sacred Animals
  • Johnston, Sarah Iles. Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide
  • Jones, Prudence and Nigel Pennick. A History of Pagan Europe
  • King, Karen (ed.). Women and Goddess Traditions in Antiquity and Today
  • Kinsley, David. The Goddesses’ Mirror: Visions of the Divine From East and West
  • Kirsch, Jonathan. God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism
  • Laquer, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and gender from the Greeks to Freud
  • Larrington, Carolyne. The Woman’s Companion to Mythology
  • Leeming, David. The Dictionary of Creation Myths
  • Leeming, David. God: Myths of the Male Divine
  • Leeming, David. Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine
  • Leon, Vicki. Uppity Women of Ancient Times
  • Meyer, Marvin. The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts
  • Miller, David LeRoy. The New Polytheism: Rebirth of the Gods and Goddesses
  • Oliphant, Margaret. The Atlas of the Ancient World
  • Olson, Carl (ed). The Book of the Goddess Past and Present: An Introduction to Her Religion
  • Porter, Barbara N (ed.) One God or Many? Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World
  • Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History
  • Salmonson, Jessica. The Encyclopedia of Amazons
  • Seznec, Jean. The Survival of the Pagan Gods
  • Starhawk (ed.). The Pagan Book of Living and Dying
  • Stone, Merlin. Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World
  • Stone, Merlin. When God Was a Woman
  • Streep, Peg. Altars Made Easy
  • Waldherr, Kris. The Book of Goddesses: Revised and Expanded Anniversary Edition
  • Young, Serinity. An Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women 

Academic Journals and Magazines

  • Archaeology
  • Biblical Archaeology Review
  • Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  • The Classical Review
  • He Epistole
  • The Journal of American Folklore
  • The Journal of Hellenic Studies
  • Literature & Theology
  • Pagan Dawn
  • Pangaia
  • The Pomegranate
  • SageWoman
  • Transactions of the American Philological Association