Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
1st Edition
Published on 20. July 2022
720 pages
978-0-691-22746-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
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06/1991
Princeton University Press
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Olympian and Chthonic Ritual
- Chapter II.The Anthesteria
- Chapter III. Harvest Festivals
- Chapter IV. The Women's Festivals
- Chapter V. The Demonology of Ghosts, 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 and Dionysiac Mysteries
- Chapter XI. Orphic Eschatologt
- Chapter XII. Orphic Cosmogony
- Critical Appendix on the Orphic Tablets
- Index or Classical Passages
- Index
- I. Greek
- II. General
