R.C.T. Parker,
Books:
1983: (ed. 2 1996) Miasma. Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1996: Athenian Religion: a History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1998: Cleomenes on the Acropolis (Inaugural Lecture). Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
2005: Polytheism and Society at Athens: Oxford University Press.
2011: On Greek Religion: Cornell University Press
Edited books:
2003: (with P. Derow), Herodotus and his World (Oxford).
2004: (with D. Harvey), G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Athenian Democratic Origins and other
essays (Oxford)
2009: (with J. Ma and N. Papazarkadas), Interpreting the Athenian Empire (London)
2011: C. Sourvinou-Inwood, Athenian Myths and Festivals (Oxford)
2013: (with B. Dignas and G. Stroumsa), Priests and Prophets among Pagans, Jews
and Christians (Leuven)
2013: Naming in Ancient Anatolia (Oxford)
Articles:
1984: Sex, Women and Ambiguous Animals. Phronesis, 29, 174-87 (review-discussion
of G.E.R. Lloyd, Folklore, Science and Ideology).
1985: Greek States and Greek Oracles. Crux, Essays presented to G.E.M. de Ste Croix
(ed. P. Cartledge and F.D. Harvey), 298-326: History of Political Thought VI 1-2, also
separately issued by Duckworth, London.
1985. Review of J.D. Mikalson, Athenian Popular Religion. Classical Review 38:, 9092.
1986: Greek Religion. In The Oxford History of the Classical World (ed. J. Boardman,
J. Griffin, O. Murray), 254-274. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1987: Myths of Early Athens. In Interpretations of Greek Mythology (ed. J. Bremmer),
187-214. London: Routledge.
1987: Festivals of the Attic Demes. In Gifts to the Gods (ed. T. Linders and G.
Nordquist), Boreas, 15, 137-147.
1988: Demeter, Dionysos and the Spartan Pantheon. In Early Greek Cult Practice (ed.
R. Hägg, N. Marinatos, G. Nordquist), Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Instituet I Athen, 40 ,
XXXVIII, 99-104.
1989: Spartan Religion. In Classical Sparta (ed. A. Powell), 142-172. London:
Routledge.
1991: The Hymn to Demeter and the Homeric Hymns. Greece and Rome, 38, 1-17.
1992: The origins of Pronoia: a mystery. In Antidosis. Essays in honour of Dr. W.W.
Cruickshank, 84-94. London: St. Paul's School.
1993: Attic cult: two guesses. In Tria Lustra. Essays and notes presented to John
Pinsent (ed. H.D. Jocelyn), Liverpool Classical Papers no. 3, 25-7. Liverpool: Liverpool
Classical Monthly.
1994: Athenian Religion Abroad. In Ritual, Finance, Politics. Democratic Accounts
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Rendered to D.M. Lewis (ed. S. Hornblower and R. Osborne), 339-346. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
1994: Classical Religion. In Cambridge Ancient History, plates to volumes V and VI
(ed. J. Boardman), 134-149. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1995: Early Orphism. In The Greek World (ed. A. Powell), 483-510. London:
Routledge.
1996: About 30 articles in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. 3 (ed. S. Hornblower
and A. Spawforth). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1996 -: Articles in Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike (ed. H. Cancik and H.
Schneider). Stuttgart & Weimar: Verlag J. B. Metzler.
1997: Gods cruel and kind: tragic and civic theology. In Greek Tragedy and the
Historian (ed. C. Pelling), 143-160. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1998: Pleasing thighs: reciprocity in Greek religion. In Reciprocity in Ancient Greece
(ed. C. Gill, N. Postlethwaite, R. Seaford), 105-126. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1998: Greek religious practices. In Greek civilization. An introduction (ed. B.A.
Sparkes), 131-145. Oxford: Blackwell.
1999: Through a glass darkly: Sophocles and the divine. In Sophocles Revisited. Essays
Presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (ed. J. Griffin), 11-30. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2000: Theophoric names and the history of Greek Religion. In Greek personal names:
their value as evidence (ed. S. Hornblower and E. Matthews). Oxford: Oxford University
Press for the British Academy.
2000: Sacrifice and Battle. In War and Violence in Ancient Greece (ed. H. van Wees),
299-314. London: Duckworth.
2000: ch. 10 of Athenian Religion was reprinted in Reason and Religion in Socratic
Philosophy (ed. N.D. Smith and P. Woodruff), 40-54. New York: Oxford University Press.
2000: (with D. Obbink) Aus der Arbeit der "Inscriptiones Graecae" VI. Sales of
Priesthoods on Cos I. Chiron 30 (2000), 414-447.
2000: ‘Greek states and Greek oracles’, (above, 1985) was reprinted in R. Buxton ed.,
Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, 76-108. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2001: (with D. Obbink) Aus der Arbeit der "Inscriptiones Graecae" VII. Sales of
Priesthoods on Cos II. Chiron 31(2001), 229-252.
2001: (with D. Obbink) Aus der Arbeit der "Inscriptiones Graecae" VIII. Three Further
Inscriptions concerning Coan Cults. Chiron 31 (2001), 253-275.
2001: Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix. In 2000 Lectures and Memoirs, PBA 111
(2001), 447-478.
2002: The Cult of Aphrodite Pandamos and Pontia on Cos. In Kukeon. Studies in
Honour of H.S. Versnel, ed. H.F.J. Hortstmanshoff and others, Leiden 2002, 143-16
2002: A New Euphemism for Death in a Manumission Inscription from Chaironeia.
ZPE 139 (2002), 66-8.
2002: ch. 10 of Athenian Religion was reprinted in The Trial and Execution of Socrates.
Sources and Controversies (ed. T.C. Brickhouse and N.D. Smith), 145-161. New York:
Oxford University Press.
2002: pp. 152-172 of 'Spartan Religion' (1989 above) were reprinted in M. Whitby (ed.),
Sparta, 161-73. Edinburgh
2003: The Problem of the Greek Cult Epithet. Opuscula Atheniensia 28, 173-83.
2004: What are sacred laws?’ In The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece, ed. E.
Harris and L. Rubinstein, 57-70. London: Duckworth.
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2004: New "Panhellenic" Festivals in Hellenistic Greece. In R. Schlesier and U.
Zellmann (eds.), Mobility and Travel in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
9-22. Münster.
2004: One Man's Piety: the religion of Xenophon in the Anabasis, in R. Lane Fox
(ed.), The Long March. Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, 131-153. New Haven: Yale
University Press.
2004: Introduction: literary and epigraphical sources to the section ‘Greek
dedications’ in Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum 1 (Los Angeles), 269-281.
2004: Sacrificing Twice Seven Children: Queen Amestris’ Exchange with the God
under the Earth (7.114). In V. Karageorghis and I. Taifacos (eds.), The World of Herodotus
(Nicosia), 151-7.
2005: ὡς ἥρωι ἐναγίζειν. In R. Hägg (ed.), Greek Sacrificial Ritual, Olympian and
Chthonian (Stockholm), 37-44.
2005: Τέκνων ὄνησις. ZPE 152: 152-4.
2005: Law and Religion. In M. Gagarin and D. Cohen (eds.), The Cambridge
Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 61-81.
2005: Artemis Ilithye et autres: le problème du nom divin utilisé comme épiclèse. In
N. Belayche and others eds., Nommer les Dieux. Theonymes, épithètes, épiclèses dans
l’antiquité (Rennes), 219-226
2006: Sale of a Priesthood on Chios. In A.P. Matthaiou and G. Malouchou eds.,
CiakÒn SumpÒsion (Athens): 67-79.
2006: review of J. Diggle ed., Theophrastus. The Characters. Classical Review 56:
308-311
2006: review of M.H. Hansen and T.H. Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and
Classical Poleis. Classical Review 56: 380-4.
2007: Gilbert Murray and Greek Religion. In C. Stray ed., Gilbert Murray
Reassessed, Oxford, 83-102.
2007: with M. Stamatopoulou, A New Funerary Gold Leaf from Pherai,
Archaiologike Ephemeris 2004: 1-32.
2008: πατρώιοι θεοί. The Cults of Sub-Groups and Identity in the Greek World. In
Religion and Society. Rituals, Resources and Identity in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World.
Ed. A.H. Rasmussen and S.W. Rasmussen, 199-212. Rome.
2008: A festival that moved, and other problems relating to Skirophorion. In In
Mikros Hieromenon. Meletes eis mnemen Michael H. Jameson, eds. A.P. Matthaiou and I.
Polinskaya, Athens 2008, 35-39.
2008: τὰ υύσικα in a Confession Inscription from Saittai. In ZPE.
2008: Préface (pp. I-VIII) to V. Mehl and P. Brulé (eds.), Le sacrifice antique.
Vestiges, procédures et stratégies (Rennes)
2009: Aeschylus’ Gods: Drama, Cult, Theology, in Eschyle à l’aube du theatre
occidental, Entretiens Hardt LV, 127-154. Vandoeuvres.
2009: Subjection, synoecism and religious life, in P. Funke and N. Luraghi (eds.), The
Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League, 183-214. Centre for
Hellenic Studies.
2009: Τίς ὁ θύων. In L. Bodiou and others, Chemin Faisant. Mythes, cultes et
societé en Grèce ancienne. Mélanges…Pierre Brulé (Rennes), 167-171
2010: New problems in Athenian religion: the ‘sacred law’ from Aixone, in J.
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Dijkstra, J. Kroesen, and Y. Kuiper (eds.), Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity. Studies in the
History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer (Leiden),193-208
2010: Eating unsacrificed meat, in P. Carlier and C. Lerouge-Cohen eds., Paysage et
religion. Mélanges offerts à Madeleine Jost (Travaux de la Maison René-Ginouvès 6), 139147.
2010: The Convention of the Basaidai and the Four Families, ZPE 173: 87-8.
2010: A Funerary Foundation from Hellenistic Lycia, Chiron 40:103-120
2011: Thessalian Olympia, ZPE 177, 111-118
2012: Epigraphy and Greek Religion, in J. K. Davies and J. J. Wilkes (eds.),
Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences (PBA 177), 17-30.
2013: Substitution in Greek Sacrifice, in P. Bonnechere and R. Gagné (eds.), Sacrifice
humains/Human sacrifice (Liège 2013), 145-152.
2013: Introduction, in B. Dignas, R. Parker, and G. Stroumsa, eds., Priests and
Prophets among Pagans, Jews and Christians (Leuven), 1-14.
2013: Introduction, to R. Parker (ed.), Naming in Ancient Anatolia (Oxford), 1-14.
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Notes:
Short notes in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 26, 1977, 81; Hermes 107, 1979, 256;
Liverpool Classical Monthly 8, 1983, 123 and 160; 9, 1984, 138; 13, 1988, 9; 14, 1989, 154;
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 57, 1984, 59; 99, 1993, 122; 115, 1997, 136; SEG
LII 157, 714
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