Jane Ellen Harrison: 4 books

Progelomena To The Study Of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison 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...

THE object of the following pages is to draw attention to some neglected aspects of Greek religion. Greek religion, as set forth in popular handbooks and even in more ambitious treatises, is an affair mainly of mythology, and moreover of mythology as seen through the medium of literature. In England,...

This brief study is a historia in the Greek sense of the word—an inquiry into the nature of Greek religion; an attempt to see how it started and then developed; how it resembles and differs from other religions. It asks, and does its best to answer the question, “What in Greek religion is characteristically Greek?”