A big, bustling cornucopia of facts marshalled into an impassioned
argument, Harrison's book offers the pleasures of an intellectual
chase, sweeping in all kinds of arcane information along the way.
Her mission was to topple the Olympian gods from their pedestal in
Greek studies and replace them with a welter of local rituals and
mystery cults. This, she argued, was where the Greek ethos came
from, not Homer at all. Her book is massive, encrusted with detail,
a monument to a forgotten kind of scholarship. (Kirkus UK)
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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