Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion /

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

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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 ha...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (720 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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