amazing scholarship

In order to build up excitement for the release of my new book Heart of the Labyrinth: further writings on the Bacchic Orphic Tradition I put together this list of articles and books that can be found online. Hopefully this will help folks make sense of some of the more obscure references in my work.

James Adam, Orphic Religious Ideas
Dan Attrell, Dead Kings and Saviour Gods – Euhemerizing Shamanism in Thracian Religion
Giovanni Casadio and Patricia A. Johnston, Mystic cults in Magna Graecia
Laura Miguélez Cavero, The Appearance of the Gods in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus
Bruno Currie, Euthymos of Locri: A case study of heroization in the Classical Period
Daniel del Nido, The Body of Socrates: Plato’s Appropriation of Dionysian Mystery Religion in the Symposium
Radcliffe Edmonds III, Recycling Laertes’ Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin
___ Redefining Ancient Orphism
___ Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks On Orphism and Original Sin
___ That Old Titanic Nature: Orphism and Plato Laws 701bc
Gunnel Ekroth, The sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods
Renaud Gagné, Winds and Ancestors: The Physika of Orpheus
Rudolf Habelt, Pharnabazos, the Diviner of Hermes: Two ostraka with curse letters from Olbia
George Hinge, Dionysus and Heracles in Scythia
Jens Holzhausen, Poetry and Mysteries: Euripides’ Bacchae and the Dionysiac Rites
Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, Dionysos in Archaic Greece: An Understanding through Images
Jordan Iliev, Oracles of Dionysos in Ancient Thrace
Ted Jenner, Ritual Performance and the Gold Leaves
Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide
Bonnie MacLachlan, Kore as Nymph, not Daughter: Persephone in a Locrian Cave
Patrizia Marzillo, Attempt of a New Etymology for the Orphic divinity Phanes
Georgi Mishev, White, red and black: Bulgarian healing ritual
Dimitris Paleothodoros, Dionysiac Imagery in Archaic Etruria
Alexis Pinchard, The Salvific Function of Memory in the Archaic Poetry, in the Orphic Gold Tablets and in Plato: What Continuity, What Break?
Ronnie Pontiac, Orpheus and Counterculture
Rosicrucian Digest, Volume 87: The Orphic Mysteries
Marilyn B. Skinner, Nossis and Women’s Cult at Locri
Michael Turner, The Woman in White: Dionysos and the Dance of Death
Velvet Yates, The Titanic Origin of Humans: The Melian Nymphs and Zagreus