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Greek and Roman religion has no scripture either. It has hymns, theogonies, mystery-cult narratives, and philosophical arguments about the gods — which is a different kind of religious literature, and worth reading as such.
Greek
| Title | Credited to | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | Hesiod; Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) Evelyn-White (tr.) | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and… | Andrew Lang | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes | Epictetus; Hastings Crossley (tr.) | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica — Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days plus the Homeric Hymns — the closest thing to a Greek scripture.
- The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and… — Andrew Lang's prose Homeric Hymns with essays on the myths.
- The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes — Epictetus. Stoicism as a practical religious discipline.
Roman
| Title | Credited to | Download |
|---|---|---|
| On the Nature of Things | Titus Lucretius Carus; William Ellery Leonard (tr.) | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| The Golden Asse | Apuleius; William Adlington (tr.) | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | Ovid; Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley (tr.) | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | Ovid; Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley (tr.) | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
- On the Nature of Things — Lucretius arguing that the gods do not intervene — ancient religious scepticism at full length.
- The Golden Asse — Apuleius. Ends with a first-person account of initiation into the mysteries of Isis.
Related
- Religious Texts — the rest of the shelf.
- The Reading Room — the library, and how to load these onto a device.
- E-readers and Kindle — getting these files onto a device.