Greek Mysteries Reading List

A list of literature related to the Greek Mysteries

Prime

Cain, A Mystery - Lord Byron
Salome - Oscar Wilde
Aradia, Gospel of Witches - Charles Leland
The Secret - Petrarch
The Bacchae - Euripides
Medea - Seneca
Dionysiaca - Nonnus
Frogs - Aristophanes
Argonautica - Apollonius Rhodius

Full List

120 days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade

A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A True Story - Lucian

Acharnians - Aristophanes 

Ad Lycophronem - John Tzetze 

Alcestis - Euripides 

Alexander the Flase Prophet - Lucian 

Alone with the Alone - Henry Corbin

Agamemnon - Aeschylus

Ancient Medicine - Hippocrates 

Andromache - Euripides 

Anacharis - Lucian 

Aradia, Gospel of Witches - Charles Leland

Arcana Mundi - Georg Luck

Argonautica - Valerius Flaccus

Argonautica - Apollonius Rhodius

Ars Poetic - Horace

Art of Love - Ovid

Assembly Women - Aristophanes 

Book of Histories - John Tzetze 

Book 4 - Aleister Crowley

Book of Thoth - Aleister Crowley

Birds - Aristophanes

Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca

CAIN, A Mystery - Lord Byron

Callimachus, Lycophron and Aratus - A.W. and G.R. Mair

Carmina Profana - Romulea X. Medea and Satisfactio ad Guntharium - Saeculo V by Dracontius*

Charon - Lucian 

Consonants of Law - Lucian

Clio - Anatole France

Collected Ancient Greek Novels - B.P. Reardon

Cosmogonic Eros - Ludwig Klages

Count of Montecristo - Alexander Dumas

Cyclops - Euripides 

Dance - Lucian

Descent not Hades - Lucian

De Medicina - Celsus

Descriptions of Greece - Pausanias

Dialogues of Courtesans - Lucian

Dialogues of the Dead - Lucian

Dialogues of the Sea Gods - Lucian

Double Inditement - Lucian

Dr. Faustus - Marlowe

Demonality: Incubi and Succubi - Father Sinistrari of Ameno

Dionysiaca - Nonnus

Dionysus in Thrace - Carl Ruck

Dithyrambs of Bacchylides

Dune series - Frank Herbert

El Mayor Encanto, Amor - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Electra - Euripides 

Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness - Carl Ruck and Mark Hoffman 

Epinician Odes - Bacchylides 

Eumenides - Aeschylus

Fabulae - Hyginus

Fasti - Ovid

Faust - Goethe

Fisherman - Lucian

Foundation series - Isaac Asimov

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Frogs - Aristophanes

Gargantua and Pantagruel - Rebelais

Gods of Love and Ecstacy - Alain Danielou

Hecuba - Euripides 

Hekate Soteira - Sarah Iles Johnston

Helen - Euripides 

Helen in Egypt - H.D 

Hellenica Oxyrhynchia

Heliogabalus - Antonin Artaud

Heracleidae - Euripides 

Heracles - Euripides 

Hermaphrodites, Gynomorphs and Jesus - Dr. Ammon Hillman

Hermotimus - Lucian

Hermetic Definition - H.D.

Hermione - H.D.

Histories - Herodotus 

How to Write History - Lucian

Hymn to King Helios - Julian the Philosopher 

Hymn to the Mother of the Gods - Julian the Philosopher

Hymns - Homer

Hymni Naturales - Michael Marullus

Iamblichus on the Mysteries

Ignorant Book Collector - Lucian

Iliad - Homer

Illustrious Women - Boccaccio

Ion - Euripides 

Iphigenia at Aulis - Euripides 

Iphigenia at Tauris - Euripides 

Ithmian Odes - Pindar

Journey To Mexico - Antonin Artaud 

Knights - Aristophanes 

La Bas - J. K. Huysmans

Libations Bearers - Aeschylus

Liber 420 - Chris Bennett

Library Of Diodorus Siculus 

Library Of Apollodorus

Library Of Photius 

Libri Medicinales - Aetius of Amida

Life of Pythagoras - Iamblichus 

Life of Apollonius of Tyana - Philostratus 

Ligeia - Edgar Allan Poe

Lysistrata - Aristophanes 

Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt - Ljuba Bortolani

Medea - Euripides

Medea - Seneca

Metaia - Ekaterine Kobakhidze

Metamorphoses - Antoninus Liberalis

Metamorphoses - Ovid 

Morella - Edgar Allan Poe

Mushrooms, Myths and Mithras - Carl Ruck and Mark Hoffman

Nature of the Gods - Cicero 

Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse 

Nemean Odes - Pindar

Odyssey - Homer

Odes - Horace

Olympian Odes - Pindar 

Of Isis and Osiris - Plutarch

On the Devil and Devils - Percy Bysshe Shelley

On Nature - Parmenides

On Sacrifice - Lucian 

On the Natural Faculties - Galen

On Unbelievable Things - Palaephatus

Opera Omnia - Galen

On the Syrian Goddess - Lucian

Orestes - Euripides 

Origen Contra Celsum - Henry Chadwick

Original Sin - Dr. Ammon Hillman

Orpheus: The Theology of the Greeks - GRS Mead

Orphic Argonautica

Paradise Lost/ Paradise Regained - John Milton

Parliament of the Gods - Lucian

Parvatidarpana - Harsha Dehejia

Peace - Aristophanes

Persephone's Quest - Carl Ruck, Wasson, Kramrisch

Persians - Aeschylus

Phoenician Women - Euripides 

Pluton - Aristophanes

Poems - Catullus

Poimandres, Corpus Hermeticum Book 1

Promethea - Alan Moore

Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus

Prometheus Unbound - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Praise of Demosthenes - Lucian

Pseudomonarchia Daemonum

Pythian Odes - Pindar

Queen Mab - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rape of Helen - Colluthus

Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly - Maria Mili

Revelations of Being - Antonin Artuad

Rhesus - Euripides 

Salome - Oscar Wilde

Satire - Horace

Saturnalia - Macrobius

Satyricon - Petronius 

Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess - Carl Ruck

Scythian - Lucian

Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus

Secretum - Petrarch

She Who Hunts - Carl Ionescu 

Shield of Heracles - Hesiod

Ship or Wishes - Lucian

Shiva and the Primordial Tradition - Alain 

Danielou

Sinister Assasin - Antonin Artuad 

Suppliant Maidens - Aeschylus

Suppliant Women - Euripides 

Suda Encyclopedia 

Sunshine And Matricide - Carl Ruck

The Apples of Apollo - Carl Ruck

The Beer of Dreams - Carl Ruck and Mark Hoffman

The Bacchae - Euripides

The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan

The Chemical Muse - Ammon Hillman

The Derveni Papyri

The Devil's Walk - Robert Southey

The Discovery of Witchcraft - Reginald Scott

The Divine Comedy - Dante

The Effluents of Deity - Carl Ruck

The Ghost of Abel - William Blake

The Golden Ass - Apuleius

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation - Hans Dieter Betz

The Great Gods of Samothrace and The Cult of the Little People - Carl Ruck

The Grimoire Verum

The Hidden World - Carl Ruck

The House of the Dead - Jeremy Reed

The Hymns of Orpheus - Thomas Taylor

The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker

The Last Man - Mary Shelley

The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism - Henry Corbin

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and his Emissary - Iain McGilchrist

The Odes - Pindar

The Orphic Fragments of Otto Kern

The Orphic Hymns - Athanassakis

The Red Book - Carl Jung

The Revolutions - Felix Gilman

The Road to Eluesis  - Wasson, Ruck, Hoffman

The Seven books of Paulus Aegineta

The Sky Man - Lucian

The Solar Anus - Georges Bataille

The Son Conceived in Drunkenness - Carl Ruck 

The Songs of Malador - Le Comte de Lautreamont 

The Theatre and its Double - Antonin Artaud 

The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas

The Unpublished Legends of Virgil - Charles Leland

The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James

The Waste Land - both T.S. Eliot and Madison Cawein versions

The World of Classical Myth - Carl Ruck

The fragments of Anaximander

The Vodou Quantum Leap - Reginald Crosley

Thee Pyschick Bible - Genesis P-Orridge

Theogony - Hesiod

Thesmophoriazusae - Aristophanes

Three Books of Occult Philosophy - Agrippa

Toxaris - Lucian

Tristia - Ovid

Trojan Women - Euripides 

Trumpets of Jericho - Unica Zürn

VALIS Trilogy - Philip K. Dick

Vril the power of the coming race - Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Wasps - Aristophanes 

Works and Days - Hesiod

Wizard of the Crow - Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Zanoni - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Zeus Rants - Lucian

The Greek Myths - Robert Graves 

The White Goddess - Robert Graves

The Golden Bough - James Fraiser

The Red Goddess - Peter Grey

Dionysus - Karl Kerenyi 

Eluesis - Karl Kerenyi

Prometheus - Karl Kerenyi 

Hermes - Karl Kerenyi

Restless Dead - Sarah Iles Johnston

Mantike - Sarah Iles Johnston

Medea - James Clauss and Sarah Iles Johnston

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife - Fritz Graf

Dionysus: Myth and Cult - Walter Otto

Theophony - Walter Otto

Artemis - Stephanie Budin

Roman Questions - Plutarch 

Oracles and Demons of Tibet - Rene de Nebesky-Wojkowitz 

The Complete Works of Joshua Sylvester 

The Maculate Muse - Jeffery Henderson