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Aeschylus. Aeschylus II. Edited by David Grene and Richard Lattimore. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1956.

Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The Greek Plays. Edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm. New York: Modern Library, 2016. Kindle edition.

Apollodorus. The Library. 2 vols. Translated by Sir James George Frazer. London: William Heinemann, 1921.

Apollonius Rhodius. The Argonautica. Translated by R.C. Seaton. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1912.

Arrian. The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander. Edited by James Romm, translated by Pamela Mensch. New York: Anchor, 2010.

Barker, Elton. “Paging the Oracle: Interpretation, Identity and Performance in Herodotus’ History.” Greece & Rome 53, no. 1 (2006): 1-28.

Broad, William J. The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science behind Its Lost Secrets. New York: Penguin, 2006. Kindle edition.

Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinch’s Mythology. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1913.

Clauss, James and Sarah Iles Johnson, ed. Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art. Princeton: University of Princeton, 1997.

Collas, Pericles. A Concise Guide to Delphi. Athens: C. Cacoulides.

Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization, Volume II: The Life of Greece. New York: Simon and Schuster. Kindle edition.

Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization, Volume III: Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon and Schuster. Kindle edition.

Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy. New York: Simon and Schuster. Kindle edition.

Euripides. Euripides I. Edited by David Grene and Richard Lattimore. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1955.

Euripides. Euripides II. Edited by David Grene and Richard Lattimore. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1956.

Euripides. Euripides III. Edited by David Grene and Richard Lattimore. New York: Washington Square, 1958.

Euripides. Euripides V. Edited by David Grene and Richard Lattimore. New York: Washington Square, 1959.

Fontenrose, Joseph. The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations. Berkeley: University of California, 1978.

Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths, 2nd ed. New York: Penguin, 1960. Kindle edition.

Green, Peter. The Greco-Persian Wars. Berkeley: University of California, 1996. Kindle edition.

Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 1942. Kindle edition.

Herodotus. The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories. Edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated by Andrea L. Purvis. New York: Anchor, 2007.

Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, revised ed. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1936.

Holland, Tom. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. New York: Anchor, 2005. Kindle edition.

Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1990.

Homer, Tyrtaeus, Archilochus, Scolia, Alcaeus, Sappho… Lucian. Masterpieces of Greek Literature. Edited by John Henry Wright. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1902.

Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1996.

Hornblower, Simon. The Greek World, 479-323 BC, 4th ed. New York: Routledge, 2011. Kindle edition.

Kagan, Donald. The Peloponnesian War. New York: Viking, 2003.

Lipsey, Roger. Have You Been to Delphi?: Tales of the Ancient Oracle for Modern Minds. Albany: State University of New York, 2001.

Martin, Thomas R. Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University, 2013. Kindle edition.

Nagy, Gregory. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1999.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism. Translated by WM. A. Haussmann. Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1910.

Ovid. The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Translated by Henry T. Riley. London: George Bell, 1893.

Pausanias. Description of Greece. 6 vols. Translated by W.H.S. Jones. London: William Heinemann, 1918.

Perrottet, Tony. Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of the Ancient Roman Tourists. New York: Random House.

Petrakos, Basil. Delphi, English ed. CLIO, 1977.

Pindar. The Extant Odes of Pindar, revised ed. Translated by Ernest Myers. London: Macmillan, 1904.

Plato. The Portable Plato. Edited by Scott Buchanan, translated by Benjamin Jowett. New York: Viking, 1948.

Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives. 5 vols. Translated by A.H. Clough. Philadelphia: John D. Morris.

Poulsen, Frederick. Delphi. Translated by G.C. Richards. London: Gyldendal.

Roberts, Jennifer T. The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece. New York: Oxford University, 2017. Kindle edition.

Scott, Michael. Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World. Princeton: Princeton University, 2014. Kindle edition.

Shepherd, William. The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices. Osprey. Kindle edition.

Skoczylas, Frances Anne. “The Concept of Sacred War in Ancient Greece.” Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987.

Sophocles. Sophocles I. Edited by David Grene and Richard Lattimore. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1957.

Strabo. The Geography of Strabo. 3 vols. Translated by H.C. Hamilton and W. Falconer. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.

Strauss, Claude Lévi. Totemism. Translated by Rodney Needham. Boston: Beacon. Kindle edition.

Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. The Greek Bucolic Poets. Translated by J.M. Edmonds. London: William Heinemann, 1916.

Thucydides. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. Edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated by Richard Crawley. New York: Free Press, 1996.

Vidal, Gore. Julian: A Novel. New York: Vintage, 1964. Kindle edition.

Virgil. The Aenid of Virgil. Translated by J.W. Mackail. London: Macmillan, 1885.

Wilkinson, Toby. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt. New York: Random House, 2010. Kindle edition.

Xenophon. The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika. Edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated by John Marincola. New York: Anchor, 2009.


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