Research Guides @ Fordham: Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art: Myth and Cult

Where to Start

Tufts University project that collects ancient texts in their original language and in translation. All texts include references, notes, and an easily navigable table of contents.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion by Timothy Insoll
Call Number: (RH) BL65.A72 O94 2011
Oxford University Press, 2011.
Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources by Timothy Gantz
Call Number: BL 782 G34 1996 V. 1-2 (RH)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Myth

Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook by Thomas H. Carpenter
Call Number: N5633 .C36 1991 (RH)
London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths: An Introduction by Klaus Junker
Call Number: N7760 .J7813 2012 (RH)
Cambridge University Pres, 2012.

Cult

Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece by Barbara E. Goff
Call Number: PA3015.W65 G65 2004
University of California Press, 2004.
Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World by John Pedley
Call Number: BL795.S47 P43 2005 (RH)
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults by Michael B. Cosmopoulos (Editor)
Call Number: BL795 .M9 G74 2003 (RH)
London and New York: Routledge, 2003.

Ancient Sources, a Selection

The Iliad by Homer; Barry B. Powell (Translator)
Oxford University Press, 2014.
The Odyssey by Homer; Herbert Jordan (Translator)
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.
Theogony / Works and Days by Hesiod; C. S. Morrissey (Translator)
Call Number: PA4010.E5 T5 2012
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2012.
The Aeneid by Virgil; David West (Translator)
Call Number: (RH) PA6807.A5 W47 2003
London and New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
Metamorphoses by Ovid; Stanley Lombardo (Tramslator)
Call Number: (RH) PA6522.M2 L66 2010
Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub. Company, 2010.

Collection Highlights

Caeretan Red-Figured Kylix

ca. 320-300 BCE

Fordham Museum 4.034

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