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This
section contains texts from ancient Greece
and Rome,
primarily about Classical Pagan beliefs. However, any text which has
survived from this period of antiquity is, by definition, a classic.
Many of these texts were only saved from the flames of the dark ages in
locations remote from Rome
and Athens,
such as the legendary city of Timbuktu
in central Africa,
Irish monastaries, and by Islamic scholars in centers of learning as Baghdad.
HOMER
Works of Homer:
The Iliad of Homer, Samuel Butler
translator [1898]
The Odyssey of Homer, Samuel Butler
translator [1900]
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer in
Greek
HESIOD
Works of Hesiod:
Hesiod's Theogony
Works and Days
ORPHEUS
The Hymns of Orpheus, by Thomas Taylor [1792]
SAPPHO
The Poems of Sappho English and
Transliterated Greek
The Poems of Sappho (Unicode) English and Greek
The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs, tr.
by Alvah C. Bessie [1926]
AESOP
The Fables of Aesop
AESCHYLUS
The Dramas of Aeschylus
ARISTOTLE
The Works of Aristotle
SOPHOCLES
The Dramas of Sophocles
EURIPIDES
The Dramas of Euripides
PLATO
The Dialogues of Plato
PYTHAGORAS
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Florence M. Firth [1902]
VIRGIL
Works of Virgil:
The Aeneid English and Latin
The Eclogues J.W. MacKail tr.
[1934]. English and Latin
The Georgics J.W. MacKail tr.
[1934]. English and Latin
APULEIUS
The Golden Asse By Apuleius.
Translated by William Adlington. [1566]
The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche By Apuleius.
Translated by William Adlington.
Illustrations by Dorothy Mullock [1914]
PLOTINUS
The Enneads of Plotinus
MARCUS
AURELIUS ANTONINUS
Meditations 247,149 bytes
LUCRETIUS
On The Nature Of Things By Titus Lucretius
Carus 447,623 bytes
OVID
Works of Ovid:
Metamorphoses English and Latin
Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia
Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae English and Latin
PETRONIUS
Gaius Petronius:
The Sayricon of Petronius
PRIAPEIA
The Priapeia Translated by L.C.
Smithers and Sir Richard Burton [1890] English and Latin
EMPEROR
JULIAN
Two Orations of the Emperor Julian Translated by Thomas
Taylor [1793]
Other
Roman resources
The Royal Museum at Naples, Being Some Account of
The Erotic Paintings, Bronzes, and Statues Contained in that Famous
"Cabinet Secret", by Stanislas Marie César Famin [1871]
Sixty lithographs of erotic Roman art and
artifacts.
Bulfinch's Mythology
Bulfinch's
able retelling of the classic myths has served as an introduction to
the subject for generation of readers.
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my
Children
by
Charles Kingsley [1901]
A retelling of the myths of Perseus,
Jason and the Argonauts, and Theseus for young adults, with lavish
art-deco illustrations.
The Sibylline Oracles Translated by Milton
S. Terry [1899].
The (pseudo)-Sibylline Oracles are
ancient books of prophecy.
Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe
by
Donald A. Mackenzie. [1917]
A survey of what is known about the
civilization of ancient Crete.
The Dionysian Artificers by Hippolyto Joseph da
Costa [1820].
Ancient Fragments by I. P. Cory [1832]
The Mysteries of Mithra by Franz Cumont [1903]
Learn about the religion that might have
taken the place of Christianity.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
by
Franz Cumont [1911]
Roman paganism later incorporated a
diverse set of beliefs including ecstatic near-eastern religions, a
wide range of goddess cults, dualism from Persia, and astrology.
Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery
Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World, by Harold R. Willoughby [1929]
Thanks to Eliza at sacredspiral.com!
Taboo, Magic, Spirits: A Study of Primitive
Elements in Roman Religion, By Eli Edward Burriss [1931]
Thanks to Eliza at sacredspiral.com!
The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on
the Religion of Ancient Rome by Jesse Benedict Carter [1906]
An excellent history of the evolution of
Roman religious ideas.
The Amazons by Guy Cadogan
Rothery. [1910]
Religious Cults Associated with
the Amazons by Florence Mary Bennett. [1912]
Ioläus, An Anthology of Friendship
by
Edward Carpenter [1917] This is an anthology of literary quotes about
(primarily) male friendship, from David and Jonathan to Walt Whitman,
particularly those verging on romantic love. Whether any of these
relationships were actually erotic in nature is left up to the reader's
imagination.
Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter
[1922]
Carpenter explores the similaries between
Christianity and ancient mystery religions, as well as the
similiarities between the narrative of Christ and other solar heros.
A Problem in Greek Ethics By John Addington
Symonds [1901]
A study of Greek homosexuality, centering
on the institutionalized (and idealized) love of adolescent males by
older men.
Intermediate Types Among
Primitive Folk by Edward Carpenter [1914]
Carpenter reviews the data on
homosexuality in the ancient world, relating it to anthopological
reports about shamans and berdaches (transgender people) in tribal
societies, as well as to male same-sex relationships in feudal Japan.
Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Harrison
[1913]
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