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Available
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Collection
Publication
Cleveland, Ohio ; New York, New York : Meridian Books, c1922, 1966.
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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Physical description
xxii, 682 p.; 20 cm
Copy notes
First published by Cambridge University Press. Third edition, 1922. Fifth Meridian printing, April 1966.
Contents: Olympian and Chthonic ritual -- The Anthesteria : the ritual of ghosts and spirits -- Harvest festivals : the Thargelia, Kallyneteria, Plynteria -- The women's festivals : Thesmophoria, Arrephoria, Skirophoria, Stenia, Haloa -- The demonoloyg of ghosts, spirits, and Bogeys -- The making of a goddess -- The making of a god -- Dionysos -- Orpheus -- Orphic and Dionysiac mysteries -- Orphic eschatology -- Orphic cosmogony.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Withdrawn from Mt. Angel College (Saint Benedict, Oregon) library. Most recent stamp on checkout card 1970-11-20.
Yellow-orange and blue wraps.
Black painted and white ink library call number on spine, library stamp on title page, pencil and ink library annotations on verso of title page and dedication page, library checkout (?) paper affixed to last page (obscured some text of index), pencil note beside paper, library pocket with card on rear inside cover.
Spine creased in several places from over-opening. Black grease-pencil mark on lower right front cover. Back cover detaching from text block where adhesive failing. Slight paper loss from price sticker on lower right back cover.
Contents: Olympian and Chthonic ritual -- The Anthesteria : the ritual of ghosts and spirits -- Harvest festivals : the Thargelia, Kallyneteria, Plynteria -- The women's festivals : Thesmophoria, Arrephoria, Skirophoria, Stenia, Haloa -- The demonoloyg of ghosts, spirits, and Bogeys -- The making of a goddess -- The making of a god -- Dionysos -- Orpheus -- Orphic and Dionysiac mysteries -- Orphic eschatology -- Orphic cosmogony.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Withdrawn from Mt. Angel College (Saint Benedict, Oregon) library. Most recent stamp on checkout card 1970-11-20.
Yellow-orange and blue wraps.
Black painted and white ink library call number on spine, library stamp on title page, pencil and ink library annotations on verso of title page and dedication page, library checkout (?) paper affixed to last page (obscured some text of index), pencil note beside paper, library pocket with card on rear inside cover.
Spine creased in several places from over-opening. Black grease-pencil mark on lower right front cover. Back cover detaching from text block where adhesive failing. Slight paper loss from price sticker on lower right back cover.