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Taylor, Thomas, The Eleusinian & Bacchic Mysteries. These mysteries once represented the spiritual life of Greece, and were considered for 2,000 years the appointed means for regeneration through an interior union with the Divine Essence. Details on the secret mysteries of the Adytums of ancient Greece. Annotated by Dr. Alex Wilder. Appendix, glossary.

Temkin, Owsei, The Falling Sickness, A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print in a new softcover edition. In The Falling Sickness, Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. His extensive use of quotations from original sources and his restraint in the use of modern medical terminology enables the author to afford unusual insight into what past generations saw, thought, and expressed. Yet this is also a developmental history of the disease and as such is guided by modern interests even where older opinions are contrary to those of the present day. This book, along with the essay by Hippocrates (On the Sacred Disease), was indispensable for writing the character of Melaina in The Mysteries.

Themelis, Petros G., Ancient Corinth, The Site and the Museum, Brief Illustrated Archaeological Guide. First human habitation in the area of the ancient city is dated to Neolithic period (c. 5000-3000 BC). The first inhabitants selected for settlement an elevated mole on the eastern foothills of the rocky massif of Acrocorinth at a distance 2-3 km from the sea, because water was abundant, it dominated the surrounding area, it could control the fertile plain and was easy to defend. The choice of site was entirely successful as is indicated by the fact that the city retained this very location until Medieval times. Apart from the above advantages, it could also control the route of overland communication.

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, Volume I and Volume II. Theophrastus of Eresus in Lesbos, born about 370 BC, is the author of the most important botanical works surviving from classical antiquity. He was in turn student, collaborator, and successor of Aristotle. He was interested in all aspects of human knowledge and experience, especially natural science. His writings on plants form a counterpart to Aristotle's zoological works. In the Enquiry into Plants Theophrastus classifies and describes varieties--covering trees, plants of particular regions, shrubs, herbaceous plants, and cereals; in the last of the nine books he focuses on plant juices and medicinal properties of herbs.

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. From the author: "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever." Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c. 460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling his factual record of a disastrous conflict.

Tomlinson, R. A., Epidauros. Epidauros, across the Saronic Gulf from Athens, was primarily the sanctuary of Asklepios, Greek god of healing, and by the fourth century BC the number and type of buildings proclaimed a flourishing center of pilgrimage. First excavated in 1881, the site is famous and important for its evidence on the ceremonies-- processions, ritual feastings, sacrifices, and athletic competitions-- surrounding the worship of Asklepios. Its buildings, including the temple, sanctuary, and stadium, the well-preserved theater, and the puzzling thymele, and their relationship to the cults of Asklepios and Apollo are examined here in detail, with reference to the function of each and its development within the sanctuary as a whole.

Tripp, Edward, The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology. From Abantes to Zninthe, from Athena to Zeus, this invaluable alphabetical guide to the myths of Greece and Rome is the definitive handbook for discovering the true identity of the epic heroes and gods who have found their way into all the great literature of the world. Drawn from original sources and later variants, this comprehensive volume consists of both complete stories and short identifications of the characters, events, place names, and constellations which compose the rich body of ancient Greek and Roman literature. And for a fuller perspective of this mythological realm, there are maps of the classical world, genealogical charts of the great royal lines, and a pronouncing index which gives both English pronunciations and transliterated Greek spellings.

Penguin Book of Greek Verse, introduced and edited by Constantine A. Trypanis. The history of Greek poetry -- and of Western literature -- begins with Homer and the two heric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Thus argues Professor Trypanis in this anthology of the finest examples of three thousand years of Greek poety, and as he writes in his introduction, "Poetry written in Greek constitutes the longest uninterrupted tradition in the Western world. From Homer to the present day not a single generation of Greeks has lived without expressing its joys and sorrows in verse, and frequently in verse of outstanding originality and beauty. It is Greek poetry which has given the world the various poetic genres in which Western man has expressed his emotions and so many of his thoughts to the present day; and in many of these genres -- the epic, the lyric and the dramatic -- the achievements of the Greeks have yet to be superseded."