| Death and the maiden: girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology K Dowden Routledge, 2014 | 498 | 2014 |
| The uses of Greek mythology K Dowden Routledge, 2002 | 442 | 2002 |
| European paganism MK Dowden, K Dowden Routledge, 2013 | 241 | 2013 |
| Homer's sense of text: Homeric ‘Text’, Cyclic ‘Text’ K Dowden The Journal of Hellenic Studies 116, 47-61, 1996 | 105 | 1996 |
| The Amazons: development and functions K Dowden Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 140 (H. 2), 97-128, 1997 | 98 | 1997 |
| A Companion to Greek Mythology K Dowden, N Livingstone Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 | 89 | 2011 |
| Heliodoros: serious intentions K Dowden The Classical Quarterly 46 (1), 267-285, 1996 | 82 | 1996 |
| Olympian gods, Olympian pantheon K Dowden A companion to Greek religion, 39-55, 2007 | 77 | 2007 |
| The Roman Audience of the Golden Ass K Dowden The search for the ancient novel, 419-34, 1994 | 75 | 1994 |
| Zeus K Dowden Routledge, 2006 | 72 | 2006 |
| Grades in the Eleusinian Mysteries K Dowden Revue de l'histoire des religions, 409-427, 1980 | 67 | 1980 |
| The epic tradition in Greece K Dowden na, 2004 | 65 | 2004 |
| Apuleius and the Art of Narration K Dowden The Classical Quarterly 32 (2), 419-435, 1982 | 65 | 1982 |
| Religion and the Romans K Dowden Bristol Classical Press, 1992 | 62 | 1992 |
| Cupid and Psyche: a question of the vision of Apuleius K Dowden M. Zimmerman et al, 1-22, 1998 | 41 | 1998 |
| Psyche on the Rock K Dowden Latomus 41 (Fasc. 2), 336-352, 1982 | 38 | 1982 |
| Pseudo-Callisthenes: The Alexander Romance K Dowden Reardon (ed.), 650-735, 1989 | 37 | 1989 |
| Deux notes sur les Scythes et les Arimaspes K Dowden Revue des études grecques, 486-492, 1980 | 36 | 1980 |
| Approaching women through myth: Vital tool or self-delusion? K Dowden Women in antiquity: New assessments, 64-77, 2002 | 35 | 2002 |
| Rhetoric and religion K Dowden A Companion to Greek Rhetoric, 320-335, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
