Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) Book

Examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive 'substratum' of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance ...Read More

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  • Book Description

    Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was a pioneer in the academic study of myth. Using the then emerging disciplines of anthropology and ethnology, she demonstrates in this book (from 1903) that the mythological tales of the Greeks embody systems of belief which are widespread among societies both 'primitive' and 'advanced'.

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    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.

  • 0691015147
  • 9780691015149
  • Jane Ellen Harrison
  • 5 June 1991
  • Princeton University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 720
  • New edition
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