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Ancient Religion Books

The Epic of Gilgamesh
Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
Ancient Religions
The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets
Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun
Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness
The Etruscans: A Captivating Guide to the Etruscan Civilization of Ancient Italy That Preceded the Roman Republic (Forgotten Civilizations)
Greek mysteries
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion
A Companion to Roman Religion (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 176)
Antigone - Oedipus the King - Electra
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Problems with Atonement by Stephen FinlanPagans and Christians by Robin Lane FoxHow Jesus Became God by Bart D. EhrmanThe Last Great Acts of Saint Peter by Edward N BrownHow Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman
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Ramon William Ravenswood
“ CLEOPATRA SPEAKS: I conquered Caesar yet was slain by Rome Last true Queen of Egypt It is not Antony I speak from cold lips I whisper, Ô mighty Egypt Ô mighty Nile into your glory, I give my spirit ”
― Ramon William Ravenswood, Icons Speak
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Bart D. Ehrman
“ Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference. ”
― Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
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