Initiation has often been accepted as a common phenomenon with a coherent meaning in the Greek world, and seen as the key to understanding a wide range of cultural and literary artefacts - this ground-breaking collection challenges this.
Initiation has often been accepted as a common phenomenon with a coherent meaning in the Greek world, and seen as the key to understanding a wide range of cultural and literary artefacts - this ground-breaking collection challenges this.
List of figures and tables List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and transliterations PART I: Introduction 1. Initiation: a concept with a troubled history PART II: Female initiations 2. What kind of rite of passage was the Ancient Greek wedding? 3. Playing the bear and the fawn for Artemis: female initiation or substitute sacrifice? PART III: Vidal-Naquet's Black Hunter 4. Adolescent initiation in myth and tragedy: rethinking the Black Hunter 5. Liminality as metaphor: initiation and the frontiers of Ancient Athens PART IV: Initiation and themale community 6. Adolescent hair-growing and hair-cutting rituals in Ancient Greece: a sociological approach 7. Striding across boundaries: Hermes and Aphrodite as gods of initiation PART V: Initiation and narrative patterns 8. Initiation in myth; initiation in practice: the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and its performative context 9. Who in hell is Heracles? Dionysus' disastrous disguise in Aristophanes' Frogs PART VI: The initiation of ritual experts 10. Evenius becomes a seer (Herodotus 9.93-5): a paradoxical initiation? 11. The initiation of the magician: transition and power in Graeco-Roman Ritual PART VII: Afterwords 12. The initiatory paradigm in anthropology folklore and history of religions 13. Initiations and initiatory experience Bibliography Subject index Index locorum Foreign word index
List of figures and tables List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and transliterations PART I: Introduction 1. Initiation: a concept with a troubled history PART II: Female initiations 2. What kind of rite of passage was the Ancient Greek wedding? 3. Playing the bear and the fawn for Artemis: female initiation or substitute sacrifice? PART III: Vidal-Naquet's Black Hunter 4. Adolescent initiation in myth and tragedy: rethinking the Black Hunter 5. Liminality as metaphor: initiation and the frontiers of Ancient Athens PART IV: Initiation and themale community 6. Adolescent hair-growing and hair-cutting rituals in Ancient Greece: a sociological approach 7. Striding across boundaries: Hermes and Aphrodite as gods of initiation PART V: Initiation and narrative patterns 8. Initiation in myth; initiation in practice: the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and its performative context 9. Who in hell is Heracles? Dionysus' disastrous disguise in Aristophanes' Frogs PART VI: The initiation of ritual experts 10. Evenius becomes a seer (Herodotus 9.93-5): a paradoxical initiation? 11. The initiation of the magician: transition and power in Graeco-Roman Ritual PART VII: Afterwords 12. The initiatory paradigm in anthropology folklore and history of religions 13. Initiations and initiatory experience Bibliography Subject index Index locorum Foreign word index
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