Dr. Fleming's recommendations for learning about Greek religion

I used to joke that the truest conservative was the classical scholar/historian of religion, Walter Burkert. Unlike other tepid conservatives who take their inspiration from the 1950's or from the Antebellum South or from the Ancien Regime, Burkert regards the paleolithic age as one of great creativity. It is a joke, but probably what lay behind the coinage. By the way, Home Necans is an important book, as his his history of Greek Religion.

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On Greek religion, Jane Harrison (and Cornford, a better scholar) was tendentious, eccentric, and speculative. Dodds, though his focus was narrow, knew what he was doing. Eliade was a brilliant philosopher of religion but not reliable or even useful for the Greeks. If you are looking for poetic interpretations, Walter Otto is still inspiring. Otherwise, Burkert's handbook is solid and Homo necans brilliant. For Athenian religion, there are the intelligent but rather academic works of Robert Parker.

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