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.

Originally published in 1921, this book was written by Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928). A pioneering British classical scholar and linguist, she was also prominent in the development of the early feminist movement. The text summarises the results of Harrison's work on the origins of Greek religion and indicates the bearing of these results on modern religious questions. It is divided into three main sections: 'Primitive ritual', Primitive theology', and 'The religion of to-day'. Notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Harrison, anthropology and Ancient Greece.

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1881. A juxtaposition of Mythology and Mythography with the idea that the artist was not borrowing from Homer, but that both Homer and the artist drew their inspiration from one common source, local and national tradition. Contents: The Myth of the Cyclops; The Myth of the Lestrygones; The Myth of Circe; The Myth of the Descent into Hades; The Myth of the Sirens; and The Myth of Scylla and Charybdis. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.