HIC EGO NEC METAS RERVM NEC TEMPORA PONO * IMPERIVM SINE FINE DEDI *

"I fix no limits for them in time or space ...
I give them an empire without end!"

    ... Iuppiter to Aeneas, by the pen of Virgil. Aen. I. 278-9.

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Books

Barnett, Mary. Gods and Myths of the Romans: The Archaeology and Mythology of Ancient Peoples. New York: Smithmark, 1996.

Bonnefoy, Yves. Roman and European Mythologies. translated under the direction of Wendy Doniger. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992.

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Brief Notes, by Guy Lee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Fantham, Elaine, et al. Women in the Classical World Gardner, Jane F. Roman Myths. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1993, in cooperation with the British Museum Press.

Goodrich, Norma Lorre. Priestesses. New York: HarperCollins, 1989.

Grant, Michael and Antonia Mulas. Eros in Pompeii: The Erotic Art Collection of the Museum of Naples. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1974. reprinted, New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997.

Jones, Prudence and Nigel Pennick. A History of Pagan Europe. London: Routledge, 1995.

Kebric, Robert B. Roman People. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1993.

León, Vicky. Uppity Women of Ancient Times. Berkeley,CA: Conari Press, 1995.

Lessing, E. and Varone, A. Pompeii. Paris: Terrail, 1996.

Luck, Georg. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

MacMullen, Ramsay. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1981.

Mann, A.T. and Jane Lyle. Sacred Sexuality. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, 1995.

Matthews, Caitlin. Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom: The Divine Feminine from Black Goddess to World-Soul. London: Aquarian/Thorsons, 1992.

Momigliano, A. The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1963.

Parke, H.W. Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity. edited by B.C. McGing. London: Routledge, 1988.

Richlin, Amy. The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1983.

Showerman, G. The Great Mother of the Gods. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1969.

Smithers, L.C.; and Sir Richard Burton. Priapeia: sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1995.

Turcan, Robert. The Cults of the Roman Empire. translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Vermaseren, Maarten J. Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult. translated by A. H. Lemmers. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.