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• Argonautica — The only complete Hellenistic epic — Apollonius of Rhodes' tale of Jason, the Golden Fleece, and Medea's love rendered with unprecedented psychological depth.
• Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries — Thomas Taylor's foundational exposition of the ancient Greek Mystery rites — the soul's descent into matter, suffering, purification, and return to divine unity.
• Hesiod — The farmer-poet's twin pillars of Greek religion — Works and Days on justice and honest labour, and the Theogony on the genealogy of the gods.
• Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite — The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite — the goddess of love, subjected to her own power, falls for the mortal Anchises on Mount Ida. Good Works Translation from the Ancient Greek.
• Homeric Hymn to Apollo — The longest and most celebrated of the Homeric Hymns — the birth of Apollo on Delos and the founding of his oracle at Delphi. Translated from Ancient Greek by the New Tianmu Anglican Church.
• Homeric Hymn to Demeter — The Homeric Hymn to Demeter — the oldest account of Persephone's abduction and the founding of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Good Works Translation from the Ancient Greek.
• Iliad — The foundation stone of Western literature — Homer's epic of the wrath of Achilles and the siege of Troy in twenty-four books.
• Introduction to Greek Religion — An introduction to the religious landscape of ancient Greece — its gods, its poets, its mysteries, its philosophers, and the texts that shaped a civilisation's understanding of the divine.
• Odyssey — Homer's archetype of every journey narrative — Odysseus's ten-year voyage home through monsters, gods, and the longing the Greeks called nostos.
• Orphic Hymns — Eighty-seven ritual hymns to the gods from the Orphic mysteries — the most complete liturgical document from Greco-Roman antiquity.