Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

  1. 720 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT ACKERMAN
  7. CHAPTER I. OLYMPIAN AND CHTHONIC RITUAL.
  8. CHAPTER II. THE ANTHESTERIA. THE RITUAL OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS.
  9. CHAPTER III. HARVEST FESTIVALS. THE THARGELIA, KALLYNTERIA, PLYNTERIA.
  10. CHAPTER IV. THE WOMEN'S FESTIVALS. THESMOPHORIA, ARREPHORIA, SKIROPHORIA, STENIA, HALOA.
  11. CHAPTER V. THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS.
  12. CHAPTER VI. THE MAKING OF A GODDESS.
  13. CHAPTER VII. THE MAKING OF A GOD.
  14. CHAPTER VIII. DIONYSOS.
  15. CHAPTER IX. ORPHEUS.
  16. CHAPTER X. ORPHIC MYSTERIES.
  17. CHAPTER XI. ORPHIC ESOHATOLOGY.
  18. CRITICAL APPENDIX ON THE ORPHIC TABLETS
  19. INDEX or CLASSICAL PASSAGES
  20. INDEX