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Bibliography

Ancient Sources
Aristotle. Metaphysics.
Aristotle. On the Heavens.
Diogenes Laërtius. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VIII.
Iamblichus. Life of Pythagoras.
Iamblichus. On the Pythagorean Way of Life.
Nicomachus of Gerasa. Introduction to Arithmetic.
Philolaus. Fragments and testimonia.
Porphyry. Life of Pythagoras.
Proclus. A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements.
Modern Scholarship
Burkert, Walter. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Harvard University Press, 1972.
Fowler, David. The Mathematics of Plato’s Academy: A New Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Guthrie, W. K. C. A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume 1: The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans. Cambridge University Press, 1962.
Heath, Thomas L. A History of Greek Mathematics. Oxford University Press, 1921.
Heath, Thomas L. The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements. Cambridge University Press, 1908.
Huffman, Carl A. Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Huffman, Carl A., ed. A History of Pythagoreanism. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Kahn, Charles H. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History. Hackett, 2001.
Knorr, Wilbur Richard. The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements. D. Reidel, 1975.
Netz, Reviel. The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Waterfield, Robin. The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Waterfield, Robin. Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Zhmud, Leonid. Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Useful Context on Music, Number, and Greek Thought
Barker, Andrew. Greek Musical Writings, Volume II: Harmonic and Acoustic Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Godwin, Joscelyn. The Harmony of the Spheres: A Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music. Inner Traditions, 1993.
McClain, Ernest G. The Pythagorean Plato: Prelude to the Song Itself. Nicolas-Hays, 1978.

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Bibliography
Primary Sources
MUL.APIN
Enūma Anu Enlil
Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa
The Descent of Inanna
Pyramid Texts
Coffin Texts
Book of the Dead
Ancient Near Eastern History
Jeremy Black. The Literature of Ancient Sumer.
Francesca Rochberg. Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science.
Wayne Horowitz. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography.
Piotr Michalowski. Selected works on Sumerian literature and early Mesopotamian civilization.
Egyptology
Jan Assmann. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt.
Erik Hornung. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt and The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife.
Richard H. Wilkinson. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.
General Archaeology and Ancient Religion
Barry Cunliffe. By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean.
Miranda Aldhouse-Green. Selected works on ancient religion and symbolism.
Chris Scarre, ed. The Human Past.
Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn. Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice.

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Bibliography
Primary and Classical Sources
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. Three Books of Occult Philosophy. 1533. Translated by James Freake; edited and annotated by Donald Tyson. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993.
Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words. 2nd ed. Edited by J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Originally published 1962.
Betz, Hans Dieter, ed. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Clarke, Emma C., John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell, trans. Iamblichus: De Mysteriis. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
Faulkner, Raymond O., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Revised by Carol Andrews. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
Iamblichus. On the Mysteries. Translated by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
Searle, John R. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman Magic
Borghouts, J. F. Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts. Leiden: Brill, 1978.
Dieleman, Jacco. Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
Faraone, Christopher A., and Dirk Obbink, eds. Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Frankfurter, David. “Narrating Power: The Theory and Practice of the Magical Historiola in Ritual Spells.” In Ancient Magic and Ritual Power, edited by Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki, 457–476. Leiden: Brill, 1995.
Frankfurter, David. Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Graf, Fritz. Magic in the Ancient World. Translated by Franklin Philip. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Meyer, Marvin, and Paul Mirecki, eds. Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. Leiden: Brill, 1995.
Pinch, Geraldine. Magic in Ancient Egypt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Ritner, Robert K. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 54. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993.
Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978. Use cautiously and comparatively rather than as a consensus account.
Ritual Language and Performative Speech
Bloch, Maurice. “Symbols, Song, Dance and Features of Articulation: Is Religion an Extreme Form of Traditional Authority?” European Journal of Sociology 15, no. 1 (1974): 55–81.
Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Malinowski, Bronisław. Coral Gardens and Their Magic. 2 vols. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935.
Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. “The Magical Power of Words.” Man 3, no. 2 (1968): 175–208.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. Culture, Thought, and Social Action: An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Oral Tradition, Formula, and Transmission
Foley, John Miles. The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.
Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen, 1982.
Parry, Milman. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Edited by Adam Parry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
Ritual Form, Authority, and Transmission
Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Bell, Catherine. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
McCauley, Robert N., and E. Thomas Lawson. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Whitehouse, Harvey. Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.
Xygalatas, Dimitris. Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022.

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