Hi hi!! I'm really sorry to bother you. I'm in the middle of Receiver of Many and it's the richest, most detailed P&H fic I've ever read!! It is absolutely beautiful. I was wondering if I could ask you about any sources you used when writing it? I'm really
I am so happy you’re enjoying it :D
I’ve had a few people ask for me to make a comprehensive list of sources, and I think this one’s it! So here we go…
The (mostly complete) Resource List for Receiver of ManyThe actual myths about Hades and Persephone:
The Homeric Hymns translated by Apostolos Athanassakis. (I highly recommend all his translations. He puts ancient Greek in plain spoken modern English.
The Orphic Hymns translated by Apostolos Athanassakis
Theogony by Hesiod
The Iliad translated by Samuel Butler
The Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler
Theoi.com
Explications and Interpretations of the hymn and other dry academic texts that Kata loves:
The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter by Ann Suter.
Eleusis: Archetypal Images of Mother and Daughter by Carl Kerenyi
The Homeric “Hymn to Demeter” : Translation, Commentary and Interpretive Essays, various authors
Texts that have since been discredited by most classical scholars but still have lots of literary goodies in them:
The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism: Sacred Practices and Spiritual Marriage by Arthur Versluis
The Golden Bough by Sir James Frazier
Black Athena: The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization by Martin Bernal
Daily life and death in Ancient Greece and their associated rituals:
Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece by Evy Johanne Haland
Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece: Literature, Religion, Society by Mark William Padilla
The clothes and jewelry they wore:
Historic Costumes for the Stage by Lucy Barton
The crops they grew:
A History of World Agriculture from the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis by Marcel Mazouyer & Laurence Roudart
I hope this helps :)