Lost Temple Bibliography
If you're interested in finding out more about any aspect of the novel, these are some of the books and articles I used to research LOST TEMPLE. Sources publicly available online are in bold.
Original Sources
The Iliad – Homer, in translations by Robert Fagles, Robert Fitzgerald and Alexander Pope
The Odyssey – Homer, in translations by Fagles, Fitzgerald and Pope
Guide to Greece – Pausanias, translated by Peter Levi
Greek Epic Fragments – Various, translated by M L West
Heroicus (“On Heroes”) – Philostratus, translated by Jennifer Berenson Maclean and Ellen Bradshaw Aitken
Ephemeris Belli Troiani (“A Journal of the Trojan War”) – Dictys of Crete, translated by R M Frazer
Geography – Strabo, translated by H L Jones
Natural History – Pliny, translated by John Bostock and H T Riley
Description of the World – Pomponius Mela, translated by Frank E Romer
Periplus Pontus Euxini (“A Journey Around the Black Sea”) – Arrian, translated by Aidan Liddle
The Library of Greek Mythology – Apollodorus, translated by Robin Hard
Odes – Pindar, translated by C M Bowra
The Trojan War: Fact, Fiction and Myth
In Search of the Trojan War – Michael Wood
Helen of Troy – Bettany Hughes
Mythological Atlas of Greece – P Olalla and A Priego
The Greek Epic Cycle – Malcolm Davies
The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle – Jonathan Burgess
Iliad and Aethiopis – M L West in Classical Quarterly 53, 2002
Odyssey and Argonautica – M L West in Classical Quarterly, 55, 2004
Odysseus Unbound – Robert Bittlestone, James Diggle and John Underhill
Achilles
The Best of the Achaeans – Gregory Nagy
The Death and Afterlife of Achilles – Jonathan Burgess (unpublished)
Tumuli of Achilles – Jonathan Burgess
The Cult of Achilles in the Euxine – Guy Hedreen in Hesperia 60, 1991
Achilles in the Underworld: Iliad, Odyssey and Aethiopis – Anthony Edwards in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26, 1885
The Temple of Achilles on the Island of Leuke in the Black Sea – Anna Rusyaeva in Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 9, 2003
Knossos and the Minoans
The Decipherment of Linear B – John Chadwick
Documents in Mycenaean Greek – Michael Ventris and John Chadwick
A Handbook to the Palace of Minos at Knossos – J D S Pendlebury
Knossos – Colin Macdonald
The Penguin Book of Lost Worlds – Leonard Cotterell
Ancient Metallurgy
The Coming of the Age of Iron – ed. Theodore Wertime and James Muhly
Myth, Ritual and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa – Sandra Blakeley
Religion
Jason, Hypsipyle and New Fire at Lemnos: A Study in Myth and Ritual - Walter Burkert in Classical Quarterly 20, 1970
The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and its Survival in Greek Religion – Nils Martin Persson Nilsson
Myths of the underworld journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the "Orphic" gold tablets – Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Art and Artefacts
Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources – Timothy Gantz
Achilles, Lord of Scythia – Gloria Ferrari-Pinney in Ancient Greek Art and Iconography, ed. Moon
The Iliad in Early Greek Art – Knud Friis Johansen
Aegean Frescoes of Religious Character – Litsa Kontorli-Papadopoulou
The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus – Charlotte Long in Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XLI, 1974
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet – Barry B Powell
Modern History
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance – Antony Beevor
Crete 1941: Germany's lightning airborne assault – Peter Antill
Station X – Michael Smith
The Secret History of S.O.E. – William MacKenzie
Inside Hitler’s Greece – Mark Mazower
Salonica: City of Ghosts – Mark Mazower
The Struggle For Greece – C M Woodhouse
Ellada 20 Aionas: Oi Photographies 1946-2000 – Michaelis Katsigeras
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb – Richard Rhodes
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 – Peter Hennessey
Cretan Quests: British Explorers, Excavators and Historians – ed. Davina Huxley
The British School at Athens: The First 100 Years – Helen Waterhouse
Films and Music
Ill Met by Moonlight (Powell and Pressburger, 1957)
The Guns of Navarone (Thompson, 1961)
The Eleventh Day (Epperson, 2005)
Rembetika: Songs of the Greek Underground – Various artists (2CD Trikont US-0293)
