Walter Burkert

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1. Walter Burkert

   Author of Greek Religion, Ancient Mystery Cults (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures), Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

2. Karl Kerenyi

   Author of Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, The Heroes of the Greeks
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3. Martin P. Nilsson

   Author of Greek Folk Religion, The Mycenaean origin of Greek mythology, Greek Piety
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4. Gregory Nagy

   Author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, Homeric Questions, Greek Mythology and Poetics (Myth & Poetics S.)
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5. Pausanias

   Author of Guide to Greece, Vol. 1: Central Greece, Guide to Greece, Vol. 2: Southern Greece
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6. E.R. Dodds

   Author of The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures)
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7. Jean-Pierre Vernant

   Author of Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, Myth and Society in Ancient Greece
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8. Christopher A. Faraone

   Author of Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, Ancient Greek Love Magic
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9. Jane Ellen Harrison

   Author of Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos Books), Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion
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10. M. L. West

    Author of The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth, The Orphic Poems (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)
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11. Marvin Meyer

    Author of The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook : Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World, Ancient Christian Magic
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12. Georg Luck

    Author of Arcana Mundi
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13. Louise Bruit Zaidman

    Author of Religion in the Ancient Greek City
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14. W. K. C. Guthrie

    Author of The Greeks and Their Gods, Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books)
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15. Homer

    Author of The Homeric Hymns, The Iliad, Books 1-12 (Greek text with Latin notes)

16. H. W. Parke

    Author of Festivals of the Athenians (Aspects of Greek and Roman Life)
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17. G. S. Kirk

    Author of The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts, Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (Sather Classical Lectures), The Iliad: A Commentary Volume I: books 1-4

18. Hesiod

    Author of Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica

19. Jonathan Z. Smith

    Author of Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism), Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity, Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions

20. Helene P. Foley

    Author of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays
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