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Death and the Maiden - Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology (Hardcover)
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Death and the Maiden - Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology (Hardcover)
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A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins -
slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows,
dear, bears, trees, and punished in Hades. Death and the Maiden,
first published in 1989, contextualises this mythology in terms of
geography, history and culture, and offers a comprehensive theory
firmly grounded in an ubiquitous ritual: pubescent girls' rites of
passage. By means of comparative anthropology, it is argued that
many local ceremonies are echoed throughout the whole range of
myths, both famous and obscure. Further, Professor Dowden examines
boys' rites, as well as the renewal of entire communities at
regular intervals. The first full-length work in English devoted to
passage-rites in Greek myth, Death and the Maiden is an important
contribution to the exciting developments in the study of the
interrelation between myth and ritual: from it an innovative view
on the origination of many Greek myths emerges.
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