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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)
• 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)

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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)

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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).

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• 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).

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