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From Myth to Mind
October 5, 1998
The Mycenaeans & the Greek Dark Ages
I. Chronology: 3000 bce - 700 bce
A. Minoan Civilization: 3000 bce - 1100 bce
B. Mycenean Civilization:
I. Ancient Sources [In English]:
Apollonius of Rhodes, The Voyage of Argo, trans. E.V. Rieu, Middlesex, England, Penguin Books, 1959,1971.
Apollodorus, [The Library:] Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus, trans. Michael Simpson, Amherst, Mass., University of Massachusetts Press, 1976.
Aristophanes, The Frogs, trans. David Barrett, Middlesex, England, Penguin Books, 1964.
Euripides, The Bacchae and other Plays, trans. Philip Vellacott, London, Penguin Books, 1954.
Hesiod, Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, trans. H.G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press (Loeb Library), 1977.
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles, New York, Penguin Books, 1991.
_____,The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fitzgerald, London, Collins Harvill, 1988.
_____, The Odyssey, trans. A.T. Murray, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press (Loeb Library), 1919.
II. Secondary Sources:
H.C. Baldry, The Greek Tragic Theatre, New York, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.,1971.
Hellmut Baumann, The Greek Plant World, trans. W.T. Stearn & E.R. Stearn, Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 1993.
Philippe Borgeaud, The Cult of Pan in Ancient Greece, trans. K.Atlass & J. Redfield, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1987.
____________,Greek Religion, trans. John Raffan, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1985.
____________,Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, trans. P. Bing, Berkeley, Ca., University of California Press, 1983.
____________, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism, trans. E. L. Minar, Jr., Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972.
____________,Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual, Berkeley, Ca., University of California Press, 1979.
Joseph Campbell, ed., The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1955.
______________, The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, New York, Penguin Books, 1977.
Helene Deutsch, M.D., A Psychoanalytic Study of the Myth of Dionysus and Apollo, New York, International Universities Press, Inc. [New York Psychoanalytic Institute], 1969.
Hans Peter Duerr, Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary between Wilderness and Civilization, trans. Felicitas Goodman, London, Basil Blackwell, 1985.
Hermann Fränkel, Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy, trans. M.Hadas & J. Willis, New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1962.
Theodor H. Gaster, Thespis: Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East, New York, Harper & Row, 1966.
Marija Gimbutas, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe 6500 - 3500 bc, London, Thames & Hudson, 1990.
Robert Graves, Food for Centaurs, Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1960.
___________, The Greek Myths, London, Penguin Books, 1955.
W.K.C. Guthrie, The Greeks and their Gods, Boston, Beacon Press, 1961.
Edward Hyams, Dionysus: A Social History of the Wine Vine (esp. "Origins and Early Practice of Viticulture" & "The Drunken Gods," pp. 35 - 64.
Solomon H. Katz & Fritz Maytag, "Brewing an Ancient Beer," @ Site Links Related to Mesopotamia or Language http://www.primenet.com/~seagoat/sumerian/sumlinks.htm
Carl Kerényi, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, trans. R. Manheim, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1976.
__________, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, trans. R. Manheim, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1967.
__________, The Gods of the Greeks, trans. N. Cameron (1951), London, Thames and Hudson, 1988.
__________, The Religion of the Greeks and Romans, New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962.
__________ & C.G.Jung, Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul (ARK), 1985.
Ivan Linforth, The Arts of Orpheus, Berkeley, Ca., University of California Press, 1941.
Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Gilbert Murray, Five Stages of Greek Religion, Garden City, New York, Doubleday and Company, Inc. (Anchor), 1955.
George E. Mylonas, Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1961.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy , trans. W.Kaufmann, New York, Random House (Vintage), 1967.
Martin P. Nilsson, Greek Folk Religion (1940), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.
______________, Greek Piety, trans. H.J.Rose, New York, W.W. Norton & Co.,Inc., 1969.
______________,A History of Greek Religion, trans. F.J. Fielden, New York, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1964.
Walter Otto, Dionysus: Myth and Cult, trans. R.B. Palmer, Dallas, Tx., Spring Publications, 1989.
R.F. Paget, In the Footsteps of Orpheus, New York, Roy Publishers, Inc., 1967.
Karl Plepelits, Die Fragmente der Demen des Eupolis, Wien, Verlag Notring, 1970.
John M. Riddle, Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine, Austin, Tx., University of Texas Press, 1985.
Erwin Rohde, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Ancient Greeks, trans. W.B. Hillis (1925), Chicago, Ares Press (Reprint), 1987.
Carl A. P. Ruck [w/ R.Gordon Wasson & Albert Hofmann], The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1977.
_____________ [w/ R.Gordon Wasson, J.Ott, S. Kramrich], Persephone's Quest, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 19
Greg Wadley & Angus Martin, "The Origins of Agriculture: A Biological Perspective and a New Hypothesis," in Australian Biologist 6: 96: 105, June 1993 [also @ http://www.vegan-straight-edge.org.uk/GW_paper.htm].
Calvert Watkins, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Grains," in Indo-European Studies III, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977, pp. 468 - 498.
Andrew Webber, "Beer or Bread: Was Beer the First Great Cereal Food?", Religion 205: Archaeology and the Bible, @ Site Links Related to Mesopotamia or Language http://www.primenet.com/~seagoat/sumerian/sumlinks.htm.
William Younger, Gods Men and Wine, Cleveland,Ohio, World Publishing Co., 1966.