#pagan hellenic

→ Useful websites

• Theoi.com

• Poetryintranslation.com

• Loeb Classical Library.com (my fave)

• Jstor (for modern scholarship but be very careful.

• Internet archive can be used for specific books that cannot be found on Poetry in translation or loeb.

• Warwick University Classical Civilisation AS and A-level resources. (this is not where I go to university before you ask, just has an extremely useful amount of learning resources.)

• YouTube and Wiki can be a good resource if you know what you're looking for.

Sources on Religion →

• Theoi.com will give you specialised information on different deities – it's great.

• Wearwick Uni Classical Civilisation Resourcesfor specifically the Greek religion resources.

• Use Loeb to get Athenian court cases. These are the best way of learning how ancient people were expected to worship.

Books I'd recommend based on your god deity →

General(applies to all): Homeric Hymns, Orphic Hymns.

Zeus: Hesiod, Theogony; Apollodorus The Library of Greek Mythology. (For Jupiter → Ovid's Metamorphoses.)

Poseidon: Hesiod Theogony (again, I know), Apollonius Argonautica.

Hera: Ovid's Metamorphoses; Apollodorus Library; Nonnus Dionysiaca .
(These are her surviving sources – it does not depict her in the best light. I'm sorry.)

Hermes: Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica; Apollodorus, Library of Greek Mythology.

Demeter: Pausanias, Description of Greece; Diodorus-Siculus, Library of History.

Athena: Homer Odyssey; Apollodorus – Library of Greek Mythology; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Hesiod Theogony; Homer Iliad.

Ares: Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology; Homer Iliad; Pseudo-Hyginus Fabulae; Dionysiaca (Nonnus).

Hephaestus: Hesiod Theogony; Homer Odyssey; Apollodorus' Library; Homeric Hymn 3; Homer Iliad.

Aphrodite: Sappho; Homer Iliad; Virgil Aeneid; Homer Odyssey; Apollodorus Library; Ovid Metamorphoses

Artemis: Hesiod Theogony; Homeric Hymns; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Pausanias Description(s) of Greece; Callimachus Hymn 3 to Artemis.

Apollo: Theogony; Aeschylus; Eumenides; Apollodorus' Library; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Homer Iliad; Homeric Hymns; Nonnus Dionysiaca.

Dionysus: The Bacchae; Dionysiaca; Ovid's Metamorphoses.