Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives (eBook, ePUB)

New Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: Dodd, David; Faraone, Christopher A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135143732
• Artikelnr.: 38257600

Autorenporträt

David Dodd

Inhaltsangabe

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