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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

By Jane Ellen Harrison

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780691227467
DOI
10.1515/9780691227467
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
47 MB (49295865 bytes)
Series
Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; 537
Pages
720\717
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 04:49:49

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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