ᛟThe Old Ways

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ᚦ Norse · 27 texts

☙ Hellenic · 51 texts

Apollonius of Tyana

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

Thomas Bulfinch (1855)

Cupid and Psyche

Description of Greece, Vol. I

Pausanias, tr. Arthur Richard Shilleto

Description of Greece, Vol. II

Pausanias, tr. Arthur Richard Shilleto

Dionysiaca, Vol. I

Nonnus, tr. W.H.D. Rouse (1940)

Dionysiaca, Vol. II

Nonnus, tr. W.H.D. Rouse (1940)

Dionysiaca, Vol. III

Nonnus, tr. W.H.D. Rouse (1940)

Fasti

Ovid, ed. Thomas Keightley (Latin text)

Golden Verses of Pythagoras

Greek Popular Religion

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Homeric Hymns

Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914

Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life

tr. Thomas Taylor (1818)

Metamorphoses

Ovid, tr. Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al. (1717)

Myths of Greece and Rome

H. A. Guerber (1893)

Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

Pagan Regeneration

Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

Roman and Greek Questions

Sibylline Oracles

Milton S. Terry, 1899

The Aeneid

Virgil, tr. John Dryden

The Argonautica

Apollonius Rhodius, tr. R.C. Seaton (1912)

The Divine Pymander

The Dramas of Aeschylus

Aeschylus, tr. E.D.A. Morshead & R. Potter

The Dramas of Euripides

Euripides, tr. E.P. Coleridge, et al.

The Dramas of Sophocles

Sophocles, tr. R.C. Jebb, F. Storr, et al.

The Eclogues

Virgil, tr. J.B. Greenough

The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

The Extant Odes of Pindar

Pindar, tr. Ernest Myers (1874)

The Geography of Strabo, Vol. I

Strabo, tr. H.C. Hamilton & W. Falconer

The Geography of Strabo, Vol. II

Strabo, tr. H.C. Hamilton & W. Falconer

The Geography of Strabo, Vol. III

Strabo, tr. H.C. Hamilton & W. Falconer

The Georgics

Virgil, tr. J.B. Greenough

The Golden Ass

The History of Herodotus, Volume 1

tr. G. C. Macaulay (1890)

The History of Herodotus, Volume 2

tr. G. C. Macaulay (1890)

The Iliad

Homer, tr. Samuel Butler (1898)

The Mysteries of Mithra

The Odyssey

Homer, tr. Samuel Butler (1900)

The Orphic Hymns

The Religion of Numa

The Sibylline Oracles

The Syrian Goddess

Theogony

Theosophical Essays

Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. I

Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. II

Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. III

Two Orations of the Emperor Julian

Works and Days

𓂀 Kemetic · 22 texts

❋ Celtic · 10 texts

🔥 Zoroastrian · 7 texts