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A.J. Festugiere, Personal Religion among the Greeks (Berkeley, 1954).
W.K. C. Guthrie, Orpheus and Greek Religion (London, 1935).
D.C. Kurtz and J. Boardman, Greek Burial Customs (London, 1971).
I.M. Linforth, The Arts of Orpheus (Berkeley, 1941).
G.E. Mylonas, Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries (Princeton, 1961).
M.P. Nilsson, The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion (Lund, 19512), is comprehensive, but prior to the
decipherment of Linear B.
M.P. Nilsson, Cults, Myths, Oracles and Politics in Ancient Greece (Lund, 1951).
H.W. Parke and D.E.W. Wormell, The Delphic Oracle (Oxford, 1956{2}).
H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (London, 1977).
Robert Parker, Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion (Oxford, 1983).
H.S. Versnel (ed.), Faith, Hope and Worship. Aspects of Religious Mentality in the Ancient World
(Leiden, 1981), includes essays on prayer and votive offerings.
G. Zuntz, Persephone (Oxford, 1971), on eschatological beliefs of Greek Italy and Sicily.
Le Sacrifice dans l'antiquite, Entretiens sur Vantiquite classique, xxvii, Fondation Hardt (Geneva, 1981);
several essays in English.



  1. Greek Art And Architecture (By John Boardman)


A comprehensive and well-documented account of Greek Art from Bronze Age to Hellenistic is M.
Robertson, A History of Greek Art (Cambridge, 1975), with his Shorter History of Greek Art
(Cambridge, 1981). Shorter handbooks are G. M. A. Richter, Handbook of Greek Art (London, 1974) by
subject, and J. Boardman, Greek Art (London, 1985) by period.


For period studies there are J. N. Coldstream, Geometric Greece (London, 1977); J. Boardman, Greeks
Overseas (London, 1980), and Preclassical Style and Civilization (Harmondsworth, 1967); J.
Charbonneaux, R. Martin, and F. Villard, Archaic Greek Art and Classical Greek Art (London, I971
1973).


Sculpture. G.M.A. Richter, Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks (Oxford, 1971) for a detailed survey,
and her comprehensive Portraits of the Greeks (Oxford, 1984). B. Ashmole, Architect and Sculptor in
Ancient Greece (London, 1972) for important essays on Olympia, the Parthenon, and the Mausoleum,
and Olympia (with N. Yalouris; London, 1967). J. Boardman, Greek Sculpture: Archaic Period and
Greek Sculpture: Classical Period (London, 1978, 1985), heavily illustrated handbooks. J. Boardman
and D. Finn, The Parthenon and its Sculptures (1985). R. Lulhes and M. Hirmer, Greek Sculpture
(London, i960) with fine pictures. C. Rolley, Greek Bronzes (1986).


Architecture. There is no modern handbook, but W. B. Dinsmoor, The Architecture of Ancient Greece
(London, 1952), is still useful, if taken with A. W. Lawrence, Greek Architecture (Harmondsworth,
1957). For other aspects, J.J. Coulton, Greek Architects at Work (London, 1977); R. E. Wycherley, How

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