Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion 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.
Full description- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Published: 05 June 1991
- Format: Paperback 718 pages
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- Categories: Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500 | History Of Religion | Ancient Religions & Mythologies
- ISBN 13: 9780691015149 ISBN 10: 0691015147
- Sales rank: 1,086,836
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Full description for 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 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.
