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reading list, roman and ancient greek religion

update from an earlier post on Roman religion primary sources plus some contemporary academicky secondary sources . i have, at last count, 977 books and articles on everything from this stuff to geology to the EZLN and islamic anarchism, and i have not been reading them with the enthusiasm that i download them with!  oh hey. something on [achaemenid iran/globular star clusters/early modern city-states/feline palaeontology/arabic calligraphy] that i absolutely want to read. let me download it and put it in the appropriate folder and not look at it again for months. while i cannot read everything, i do read a lot when i give myself a reading list and some goals. the new goal is get up to speed on religion among pre-christian greeks and romans enough to teach introductory classes on it. to that end, the titles infra are not themselves a reading list, not something i could reasonably absorb while also working and parenting and gardening etc., but more of a reading ecology. from  ...