Recommended Readings
Sacred Books
Chaldean Oracles
Corpus Hermeticum: The Way of Hermes: New Translations of The Corpus Hermeticum and The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius, translated by Clement Salaman, Dorine Van Oyen, William D. Wharton, and Jean-Pierre Mahé. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2004.
Magic and the Mysteries
Graf, Fritz. Magic in the Ancient World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Price, Simon. Religions of the Ancient Greeks. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Dignas, Beate and Kai Trampedach. Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008.
Renaissance Hermetism
Voss, Angela, and Marsilio Ficino. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2006.
Walker, D.P. Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2000.
Astrology
Holden, James H. A History of Horoscopic Astrology: From the Babylonian Period to the Modern Age. Tempe, AZ: American Federation of Astrologers, 2006.
Mythology
Graves, Robert. Greek Myths. London: Penguin Books, 1981.
Mclean, Adam. The Triple Goddess: An Exploration of the Triple Feminine. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1989.
Philosophy
Apuleius. The Golden Ass.
Marcus Aurelius. Meditations.
Seneca. On Tranquility of Mind.
Platonism—Primary Texts
Plato. (1997) Plato: Complete Works, ed. John Cooper and D.S. Hutchinson. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1997.
Neoplatonism—Primary Texts
Iamblichus. The Theology of Arithmetics, translated by R. Waterfield. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1998.
Iamblichus. De Anima, translated by John F. Finamore & John M. Dillon. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002.
Iamblichus of Chalcis. The Letters, translated by John M. Dillon and Wolfgang Polleichtner. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009.
Iamblichus. De Mysteriis, translated by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
Ovid. The Metamorphoses. Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1994.
Proclus. Platonic Theology. Milan, Italy: Bompiani, 2005.
Proclus. Proclus’ Metaphysical Elements translated by T.M. Johnson. Osceola, MO: 1909.
Van den Berg, R.M. Proclus’ Hymns: Essays, Translation, Commentaries. Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2000.
Proclus. Commentary on Plato’s Timeus—Book I: Proclus on the Socratic State and Atlantis, edited and translated by H. Tarrant. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation Including the Demotic Spells: Volume One, ed. Hans Dieter Betz. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Neoplatonism—Secondary Texts
Corrigan K. Reading Plotinus—A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2004.
Dillon, John. The Middle Platonists: 80 B.C. to A.D. 220. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Finamore John F. Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul. Oxford: Oxford University Press, American Classical Studies 14, 1985.
Fowden, Garth. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Shaw, Gregory. Theurgy and the Soul: the Neoplatonism of Iamblichus. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Uždavinys, Algis. Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity. Sophia Perennis, 2010.
Note
An extended bibliography, which is regularly updated, can be found on the website of the Aurum Solis, along with a large number of books you can download for free.