Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion:

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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Main Author: Harrison, Jane Ellen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2022]
Series:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57 664
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)
Physical Description:1 online resource (720 pages)
ISBN:9780691227467
DOI:10.1515/9780691227467

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