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This is a biography of Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), who spent most of her life at Newnham College, Cambridge, and was renowned for her work on Greek art and religion…
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Jane Ellen Harrison
The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called "my hero."
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Discovers an intimate connection crucial to Woolf’s professional identity and intellectual and artistic development in Harrison’s controversial, feminist interpretations of Greek mythology.
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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…
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An exploration of the religious beliefs and practices of ancient Greece, including the worship of gods and goddesses such as Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, as well as cults and rituals…
Ancient Art and Ritual is a classic work of anthropology and art history that provides readers with a unique perspective on the social and cultural significance of art and ritual…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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These Epilegomena are the sequel to the author’s other two books, Prolegomena and Themis. The author has tried to summarize the result of many years’ work on the origins of…
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Ancient Art and Ritual is a brief overview of dance and art in ancient Greece.
"Ancient Art and Ritual" is a book written by Jane Ellen Harrison, a distinguished classical scholar and linguist. The book was first published in 1913 and is considered one of…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Originally published in 1906, this book by celebrated Classicist Jane Ellen Harrison reviews Thucydides’ account of Classical Athens in the light of contemporary excavations made in the city. The text…
Jane Ellen Harrison’s ideas on Greek gods and rituals in Themis remain influential today. In this revolutionary work, Harrison, known as one of the founders of modern studies in Greek…
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was a pioneer in the academic study of myth. Using the then emerging disciplines of anthropology and ethnology, she demonstrates in this book (from 1903) that…
Introductory Studies in Greek Art (1885) was the second book by the prominent classical scholar Jane Harrison (1850-1928). It grew out of the time Harrison spent studying archaeology at the…
""Art And Ritual Of The Ancients"" is a comprehensive exploration of the art and rituals of ancient civilizations, written by Jane Ellen Harrison. The book delves into the religious beliefs…
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…
THIS 56 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459596X.
Contents: Art and Ritual, Primitive Ritual; Periodic Ceremonies: Spring Festival; Primitive Spring Dance or Dithyramb, in Greece; Transition from Ritual to Art; Greek Sculpture; Ritual, Art and Life; Bibliography.
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In the Greek sense this booklet is a historia, an inquiry into the nature of Greek religion; an attempt to see from where it came and how it proliferated; how…
THIS 72 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature, by Jane Ellen Harrison. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766190676.
Oh, the plight of the hypochondriac! Only the bearer of such a burden knows its weight. Neurotic and naive, Cali Watkins finds herself on the bumpy quest for true love…
THIS 82 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature, by Jane Ellen Harrison. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766190676.
THIS 84 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature, by Jane Ellen Harrison. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766190676.
