Recent literature: O. Gruppe, _Griechische Culte und Mythen in ihren Beziehungen zu den orientalischen Religionen_, 1887; _Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte_, 1906; L. R. Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_, 5 vols. (1896-1910); Chantepie de la Saussaye, _Lehrbuch der Religiongeschichte_ (Greek section, 1906); Jane Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_ (1903), _Themis, a Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion_ (1912) (both works dealing mainly with special questions and the more primitive aspects of the religion). Treatises on special cults and special questions: Roscher, _Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie_ (1884, in progress); Paulz-Wissowa, _Real Encyclopædie_ (1894, in progress); and Daremberg et Saglio, _Dictionnaire des Antiquités_ (1873-1917); Showerman, _The Great Mother of the Gods_ (Wisconsin, 1901); Frazer, _Attis, Adonis, Osiris_ (2nd ed., 1910); A. Dieterich, _Mutter Erde_ (1905); Eitrem, _Hermes und die Toten_ (Christiania, 1909); Immerwahr, _Kulte und Mythe Arkadiens_ (1891); S. Wide, _Lakonische Kulte_ (1893); Usener, _Götternamen_ (1896); cf. paper on his theory in _Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor_, “The Place of the Sondergötter in Greek Polytheism,” by L. R. Farnell (1907); De Visser, _De Graecorum Diis non referentibus speciem humanam_ (Leyden, 1900); E. Fehrle, _Die Kultische Keuscheit im Alterthum_ (Giessen, 1910); cf. L. R. Farnell, _Evolution of Religion_ (1905), Lect. iii, “The Ritual of Purification”; {159} Th. Wáchter, _Reinheitsvorschriften im grieschischen Kult_ (Giessen, 1910); C. Ausfeld, _De Graecorum precationibus quaestiones_, in Fleckeisen’s Supplement (1903); cf. L. R. Farnell, _op cit._, Lect. iv, “The Evolution of Prayer”; S. Reinach, various articles on Greek cults and myths in _Cultes, Mythes et Religions_, 3 vols. (1904-1908). For Eschatology, Mysteries, Thiasoi, Hero-worship: A. Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, 2 vols. (1829); E. Rohde, _Psyche_ (2nd ed., 1898); A. Dieterich, _Nekyia_ (1893); also _Eine Mithras-Liturgie_ (1903); Jong, _Das Antike Mysterien-Wesen_ (Leiden, 1909); Goblet d’Alviella, _Eleusinia_ (Paris, 1903); Foucart, “Les Grands Mystères d’Eleusis” (1900), in the _Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres_, xxxvii; Pringsheim, _Archäologische Beiträge zur Geschichte des Eleusinischen Kults_ (Munich, 1905); Foucart, _Associations religieuses chez les Grecs_ (1873); L. Weniger, _Ueber das Collegium der Thyiaden_ (1876); Article on “Héros,” by Deneken, in Roscher’s _Lexikon_; Pfister, _Der Reliquien-kult im Alterthum_ (1910).