Works Cited

Primary Sources (Classical)

Euripides, Herakles.

Herodotus, The Histories.

Nepos, Cornelius, Lives of Eminent Commanders.

Polyaenus, Strategems.

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca.

Sources (General)

Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva. In the Garden of the Gods: Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids. Routledge, 2016. 

Baker-Penoyre, John Ff.. “Thasos (Continued).” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 29 (1909): 202-50.

Damyanov, Margarit. “First Encounters and Further Developments: Greeks Meeting Thracians on the Western Pontic Coast.” In Archaeology across Frontiers and Borderlands: Fragmentation and Connectivity in the North Agean and the Central Balkans from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, edited by Gimatzidis Stefanos, Pieniążek Magda, and Mangaloğlu-Votruba Sila, 243-68. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2018.

Ekroth, Gunnel. “Heroes and Hero-Cults.” A Companion to Greek Religion. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing (2007): 100-14.

Fournier, J., Hamon, P., Parissaki, M.G. “Archaeology in Greece 2014–2015.” Archaeological Reports, no. 61 (2014): 75-93.

Graham, A. J. “The Foundation of Thasos.” The Annual of the British School at Athens 73 (1978): 61-98.

Gregory, Justina. “Heracles.” In Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians, 121-54. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.

Hands, Alfred Watson. Common Greek Coins: Vol. I. The Coinage of Athens, Corinth, Aegina, Boeotian League, Alexander the Great, Achaean League, and Lycian League. Vol. 1. Spink & son, Limited, 1907. 

Jameson, Michael H., David R. Jordan, and Roy David Kotansky. A Lex Sacra from Selinous. No. 11. Duke University, 1993.

Jameson, Michael H. Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece: Essays on Religion and Society. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Jesi, Furio, and Benjamin Egli. “The Thracian Herakles.” History of Religions 3, no. 2. 1964: 261-77.  

Kivilo, Maarit. “Archilochus.” In Early Greek Poets’ Lives: The Shaping of the Tradition, 87-120. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010.

Larson, Jennifer. Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide. Psychology Press, 2007. 

Lipiński, Edward. ItinerariaPhoenicia. Vol. 127. Peeters Publishers, 2004. 

Scullion, Scott. “Heroic and Chthonian Sacrifice: New Evidence from Selinous.” ZeitschriftfürPapyrologie und Epigraphik (2000): 163-171.

Shapiro, Harvey Alan. “‘Hȇrȏs Theos’: The Death and Apotheosis of Herakles.” The Classical World 77, no. 1 (1983): 7-18.

Sokolowski, F. “Heracles Thasios.” The Harvard Theological Review 49, no. 3 (1956): 153-58.

Stafford, Emma. “Herakles Between Gods and Heroes.” In The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations, edited by Bremmer Jan N. and Erskine Andrew, 228-44. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Stafford, Emma. Herakles. London: Routledge, 2012. 

Visser, Margaret. “Worship Your Enemy: Aspects of the Cult of Heroes in Ancient Greece.” The Harvard Theological Review 75, no. 4 (1982): 403-28.

Walsh, Justin. “Exchange and Influence: Hybridity and the Gate Reliefs of Thasos.” Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World. 2009: 174-187. 

Supplementary

Fundamental scholarship on the archaeology of the Sanctuary of Heracles, its excavation and analysis are primarily in French. The sources are as follows:

Picard, Charles. Les murailles: les portessculptée à images divines. Éditions E. de Boccard, 1962.

M. Launey, Le sanctuaire et le culte d’Hérakès à Thasos (Paris: De Boccard, 1944); Pouilloux, Recherches, and ‘L’Héraclès thasien’, Revue des Etudes Anciennes 76 (1974), pp. 305–16.

Important re- evaluations of the archaeological material are: B. Bergquist, Herakles on Thasos = Boreas 5 (Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1973), and ‘Feasting of worshippers or temple and sacrifice? The case of Herakleion on Thasos’, in R. Hägg (ed.), Ancient Greek Cult- Practice from the Archaeological Evidence (Stockholm: Paul Åström, 1998), pp. 57–72; J. des Courtils and A. Pariente, ‘Excavations in the Heracles sanctuary at Thasos’, in R. Hägg et al. (eds) Early Greek Cult Practice (Stockholm: Paul Åström, 1988), pp. 121–3; and J. des Courtils et al., ‘Sacrifi ces d’animaux à l’Hérakleion de Thasos’, BCH 120 (1996), pp. 799–820.

Stafford, “Herakles: Between Gods and Heroes,” 233.

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