What to Read After Greek Religion
Readers who loved Greek Religion by Walter Burkert keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Greek Religion is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Greek Religion
Theogony
Myths from Mesopotamia
Ancient Greece
The world of Odysseus
The Homeric hymns
Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds
The gods of the Greeks
A History of Religious Ideas
The Works And Days And Theogony
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
From Ritual to Romance
Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion
Shinto, the Kami way
Greek and Roman Necromancy.
The origins of the Mithraic mysteries
Dionysos
Dionysus
Human Past
The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus
Early Greek science
The Triumph of the Moon
The Story of Civilization II
Classical Gods and Heroes
The origins of Greek thought