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GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

After V. Be ́rard’s now obsolete thesis of the Phoenician origin of Arcadian cults (Be ́rard 1894),
the study of Arcadian religion aroused hardly any interest until the 1960s and 1970s. Then two
monographs appeared on the indigenous deities, the Great Goddesses of Arcadia (Stiglitz
1967) and Pan (Borgeaud 1979), whilst Piccaluga (1968) devoted a work to the myth of
Lykaon. We then had to wait until 1985 for a discussion of the sanctuaries and cults of Arcadia
(Jost 1985), which should be consulted for detailed consideration of the sources and for earlier
bibliography.
Since 1985 two general studies on Arcadia (Nielsen and Roy 1999 and Nielsen 2002) have
enriched our understanding of the historical, economic, and social context in which Arcadian
religion developed. General studies on various aspects of Greek religion have paid attention to
Arcadia. On the subject of human sacrifice, Hughes (1991) and Bonnechere (1994) have
looked at the rites of Mount Lykaion. On the subject of myths of metamorphosis into animals,
Forbes Irving has re-examined the cases of Lykaon and Kallisto (1990), and Avagianou (1991)
has reinterpreted Poseidon’s and Demeter’s transformations into horses. Mylonopoulos
(2003) has collected the material available on Poseidon in that year.
Other studies have focused upon Arcadia itself. Bregli-Pulci Doria (1986) investigates
Demeter Erinys. On the material side, Hu ̈binger (1992, 1993) focuses on the bronze statuettes
of Berekla and the iconography of Pan and shepherds, with a particularly valuable catalog. The
author of the present chapter has written a series of articles addressed to particular aspects of
Arcadian religion: the deities (Jost 1987/8 and 1994) and their epithets (Jost, forthcoming
(a)); the organization of local pantheons (Jost 1996a, 1996b, 1998a); the myths (1997); the
rites of human sacrifice (2002a); and the mysteries (2002c). A historiographical article (Jost
forthcoming (b)) puts into perspective the different interpretations to which the myths of the
transformations of Lykaon and Kallisto have given rise. Cardete del Olmo 2005 (seen only after
the drafting of this chapter) investigates the ‘‘religious landscape’’ of Phigalia and Parrhasia.
Finally, two recent editions (Jost 1998b and Moggi and Osanna 2003) offer detailed
commentaries on Book 8 of Pausanias’Guide to Greece, which is a major source for our
knowledge of Arcadian religion.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This text has been translated from the French by the editor, to whom I express sincere and
warm thanks.

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