 | The Homeric Gods: Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion by Walter F. Otto
Buy used from: £54.64 empathetic and scholarly account of the Olympian gods
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 | Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis and Hestia by Ginette Paris
Buy new: £8.59 / Used from: £8.49 similar attempt at getting the inwardness of Olympianism
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 | Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology by Richard Buxton
Buy new: £11.87 / Used from: £10.12 lots of detail, with reminders of the wider context
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 | Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness by P Feyerabend
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £14.65 clumsily edited but worthy conclusion to a maverick philosopher's career
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 | Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religions and Themis a Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion (1921) by Jane Ellen Harrison
Buy new: £20.29 / Used from: £38.72 more on rituals than on literary remains
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 | A Rumour of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural (Pelican) by Peter L. Berger
Buy used from: £0.90 ok - not Olympians: but a good and sympathetic sociological study
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| The Mysteries of Religion by CLARK
Buy used from: £4.50 phenomenological account of religion, with platonic bias
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 | Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault by Pierre Hadot
Buy new: £14.67 / Used from: £20.18 understanding the ancient philosophical riff on Olympianism
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 | Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant
Buy new: £10.95 / Used from: £10.23 the meaning of Greek myths in ancient drama
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 | The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £8.99 wild and influential invention, founded on spurious scholarship: still worth a look!
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| Flutes of Dionysus: Daemonic Enthrallment in Literature by Robert D. Stock
Buy used from: £7.50 very readable - and barbed - study of the later image of Dionysus
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 | The Shape of Ancient Thought by Thomas McEvilley
Buy new: £26.99 / Used from: £210.19 showing that the Greeks were part of a larger milieu, including India
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