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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Paperback)
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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850 1928) was a pioneer in the academic study
of myth in its historical and archaeological context, and was also
one of the first women to make a full-time career as an academic.
In her introduction to this book (1903), making the point that
'Greek religion' was usually studied using the surviving literary
retellings of myths and legends, she states: 'The first preliminary
to any scientific understanding of Greek religion is a minute
examination of its ritual'. Using the then emerging disciplines of
anthropology and ethnology, she demonstrates that the specific
mythological tales of the Greeks embody systems of belief or
philosophy which are not unique to Greek civilisation but which are
widespread among societies both 'primitive' and 'advanced'. Her
work was enormously influential not only on subsequent scholars of
Greek religion but in the wider fields of literature, anthropology
and psychoanalysis.
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