MYTH: A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY

DEFINING ‘Myth’ (and other terms):

Csapo, Eric,Theories of Mythology (Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing 2005). [Ancient Cultures Series]
Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.), Myth: A Symposium (Bloomington: U. Indiana Press 1955) paper (ISBN 0-253-20083-0) ["The structural Study of Myth," by Claude Levi-Strauss]
Geoffrey Kirk,Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (Berkeley: U.Cal. 1970) paper (ISBN 0-520-02389-7) (also other editions, Penguin)
C. Scott Littleton,The New Comparative Mythology: An anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumezil (Berkeley: University of California 1973 revised edition) paper (ISBN 0-520-02403-6)
Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales and Myth (New York 1951) [Freudian]
Bruno Bettelheim,The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (New York: Random House/Vintage 1976) paper (ISBN 0-394-72265-5) [Jungian]
Georges Polti, The Thirty-six Dramatic Situations (translated by Lucile Ray) (Ridgewood NJ 1916) [translated from the French] [available on books.google.com]
Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson, The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography 2nd revised edition (Helsinki 1973).

Non-Greek MEDITERRANEAN MYTHOLOGIES:

R.T. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt (London/New York: Thames & Hudson 1960) paper
(ISBN 0-500-27112-7).
Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society & Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago 1948) paper (ISBN 0-226-26011-9)
A. R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition, and Cuneiform Texts 2 vols. (Oxford OUP 2003).
Thorkild Jacobsen, The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (New Haven: Yale 1976) paper. (ISBN 0-300-02291-3)

GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY:

Price, Simon and Emily Kearns (edd.), The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion (Oxford: OUP 2004).
Richard Buxto, Handbook of Greek Mythology (New York Dutton) paper
Michael Grant, The Myths of the Greeks and Romans (New York: NAL-Mentor 1962) Mentor paper (ISBN 0-452-00420-9)
Edward Tripp, The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology (New York NAL-Meridian 1970) paper (ISBN 0-452-00420-9).
Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 2 vols. paper (New York: Penguin 1955) [Note: useful for references, but use great caution with his interpretations: He is a naturalist-ritualist, heavy on mother-goddesses and vegetation cycle stories and interpretations. His etymologies are often 'creative'.]
Marcel Detienne, The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context (tr. J. Lloyd) [Gallimard 1989] (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 2003).
Bernabé, P. , A. and A Jiménez San Cristóbal, Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2008) [Religions in the Greco-Roman World, Volume 162].
Luba Freedman, The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art (Cambridge: CUP 2003).
H. David Brumble, Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (New York Routledge 1998).
Geoffrey Miles, Classical Mythology in English Literature (New York Routledge 1999).
Michael O'Brien (ed.),Twentieth Century Interpretations of OEDIPUS REX (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall 1968) paper
Mary Lefkowitz,Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths (New Haven: Yale 2003).
Martin P. Nilsson,The Mycenaean Origins of Greek Mythology (New York Norton) paper (originally pub. 1931).
M. P. Nilsson,Greek Folk Religion (1940 Harper Torchbook) paper (1961).
Jon D. Mikalson,Athenian Popular Religion (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina 1983).
Ogden, D.,Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook. (2002).
Anderson, Graham,Fairytale in the Ancient World (New York: Routledge 2000).
DeNew Yorks L. Page,Folktakes in Homer's Odyssey (The Carl Newell Jackson Lectures 1972).
Ken Dowden, Zeus (New York Routledge 2005).
Carol Dougherty, Prometheus (New York Routledge 2005).
Barbara Breitberger, Aphrodite and Eros: The Development of Greek Erotic Mythology (New York Routledge 2004).
Buxton, Richard, Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis (New York: Oxford University Press 2009).
W.B. Stanford and T.J. Luce, The Quest for Ulysses (1974).
Paul Veyne, Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths? (Chicago 1983) paper. [BL 782 .V4713]
Michael Grant, Roman Myths (New York: Scribners 1971).
Stewart Perowne, Roman Mythology (New York Paul Hamlyn 1969).
Wildfang, Robin L, Rome's Vestal Virgins (New York: Routledge 2006).
Timothy Peter Wiseman, Remus: A Roman Myth (Cambridge UP 1995).
Timothy Peter Wiseman, The Myths of Rome (Exeter: University of Exeter Press 2004) [BMCR 2005.09.02.]
Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire (Cambridge: Blackwell 1996 [Paris: Les Belles Lettres 1992]).
Walter Burkert, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual (Berkeley/Los Angeles: UCal 1979) paper
Walter Burkert, Homo necans. The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth tr. Peter Bing (Berkeley/Los Angeles: UCal [1972] 1983).
Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults (Cambridge: Harvard 1987).
Bowlby, Rachel, Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identitities (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009).
Bell, Robert E., Women in Classical Mythology (Oxford 1993).
Deacey, Susan, Athena (New York: Routledge 2008).
Demand, Nancy, Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 1994).
Dougherty, Carol, Prometheus (New York: Routledge 2005).
Graf, Fritz, Apollo (New York: Routledge 2008).
Ogden, Daniel, Perseus (New York: Routledge 2008).
Larson, Jennifer, Greek Heroine Cults (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1995).
Lefkowitz, Mary R., Women in Greek Myth (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 1990).
Seaford, Richard, Dionysos (New York: Routledge 2006).
Sergent, Bernard, Homosexuality in Greek Myth (Boston 1986).

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zürich/München: Artemis Verlag):

I (Aara-Aphlad) (1981)
II (Aphrodisias-Athena (1984)
III (Atherion-Eros) (1986)
IV (Eros-Herakles) (1988)
V (Herakles-Kenchrias) (1990)
VI (Kentauroi-Oiax; and addenda to Vol. V) (1992)
VII (Oidipous-Theseus; and addenda to Vol. V) (1994)
VIII (Thespiades-Zodiacus; Supplementum) (1997).