Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion / / Jane Ellen Harrison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Harrison, Jane Ellen,
• MitwirkendeR: Ackerman, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57 ; 664
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (720 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER I. OLYMPIAN AND CHTHONIC RITUAL --; CHAPTER IT. THE ANTHESTERIA. THE RITUAL OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS --; CHAPTER III. HARVEST FESTIVALS. THE THARGELIA, KALLYNTERIA, PLYNTERIA --; CHAPTER IV. THE WOMEN'S FESTIVALS. THESMOPHORIA, ARIIEPHORIA, SKIROPHORIA, STENIA, HALOA --; CHAPTER V. THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS --; CHAPTER VI. THE MAKING OF A GODDESS --; CHAPTER VII. THE MAKING OF A GOD --; CHAPTER VIII. DIONYSOS --; CHAPTER IX. ORPHEUS --; CHAPTER X. ORPHIC MYSTERIES --; CHAPTER XI. ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY --; CHAPTER XII. OEPHIC COSMOGONY --; CRITICAL APPENDIX ON THE ORPHIC TABLETS --; INDEX OF CLASSICAL PASSAGES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691227467; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691227467?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jane Ellen Harrison.

Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, best developed and most clearly put in the Prolegomena, have never been eclipsed.