The Invention of Jane Harrison / / Mary Beard.

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman--as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room o...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Revealing Antiquity ,
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Illustrations
  • Chapter one. Prolegomena
  • Chapter two. Mrs. Arthur Strong: Apotheosis and After Life
  • Chapter three. Unanimism
  • Chapter four. Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature
  • Chapter five. Introductory Studies in Greek Art
  • Chapter six. Alpha and Omega
  • Chapter seven. Ancient Art and Ritual
  • Chapter eight. Hellas at Cambridge
  • Chapter nine. Pandora’s Box
  • Chapter ten. Epilegomena
  • Lifelines
  • Notes
  • Major Archival Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Revealing antiquity