This is an ever-growing recommended reading list on Hellenismos, Hellenic polytheistic practice.
Note: I have read and/or own every single book on this list.
Greek Religion
- Lesley Adkins & Roy A. Adkins, Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece
- Walter Burkert, Greek Religion
- Walter Burkert, Homo Necans
- Drew Campbell, Old Stones, New Temples
- Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Life
- Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Death
- Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
- Jane Ellen Harrison, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion
- Hesiod, Theogony; Works and Days
- Homer, Homeric Hymns
- The Orphic Hymns
- Homer, The Iliad
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Karl Kerenyi, Gods of the Greeks
- Karl Kerenyi, Religion of the Greeks and Romans
- Fritz Graf, Greek Mythology
- W.K.C. Guthrie, The Greeks and their Gods
- Mary Lefkowitz, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths
- Jon D. Mikalson, Athenian Popular Religion
- S. Instone, Greek Personal Religion
- Martin P. Nilsson, Greek Folk Religion
- Walter Otto, The Homeric Gods
- H. W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians
- Robert Parker, Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
Greek Gods
Apollo
- Karl Kerenyi, Apollo: The Wind, the Spirit, and the God
- Jon Soloman, Apollo: Origins and Influences
- Fitz Graf, Apollo
- Rev. Jonathan Souza, Wings of Flame, Coils of Light – a devotional anthology
Athena
- Karl Kerenyi, Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion
Demeter and Persephone
- Karl Kerenyi, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
Dionysos
- Karl Kerenyi, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructable Life
- Walter Otto, Dionysus: Myth and Cult
- Nonnos, Dionysiaca I, II, and III
Hekate
- Sarah Iles Johnson, Hekate Soteira
- Sorita d’Este, Hekate Liminal Rites
- Bibliotecha Alexandrina, Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology to Hekate
- Vivienne Moss, Pagan Portals – Hekate: a Devotional
- Robert Von Rudloff, Hekate in Ancient Greek Religion
Hermes
- Karl Kerenyi, Hermes: Guide of Souls
Greek Mysteries
- Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults
- U. Bianchi, The Greek Mysteries (Iconography of Religions Section 17, Greece and Rome)
- Linda Fierz-David, Women’s Dionysian Initiation: The Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii (Jungian Classics Series ; 11)
- Karl Kerenyi, Eleusis
- Mavin Meyer, The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Carl Ruck, et al, The Road To Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
- Fitz Graf, Ritual Texts for the Afterlife
Divination
Greek Mysticism, Magic, and Theurgy
- Hans Betz, Greek Magical Papyri in Translation
- E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational
- Christopher Faraone, et al, Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion
- Fritz Graf, Magic in the Ancient World
- Iamblichus, On the Mysteries
- Sarah Iles Johnson, Hekate Soteira
- Sarah Iles Johnson, Ancient Greek Divination
- Peter Kingsley, Ancient Philosophy, Mysteries, and Magic
- Peter Kingsley, In Dark Places of Wisdom
- Peter Kingsley, Reality
- Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi
- Matthew Dickie, Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World
- Georgi Mishev, Thracian Magic
- Stephen Skinner, Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic]