Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

by Jane Ellen Harrison

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015147
• ISBN13: 9780691015149
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Very Small Print

This is a review on the print not the content. Unfortunately this book appears to be a copy of original pages that were not resized to fit to the pages. The print is 3" x 5.5" centered on a 6" x 9" page making the print very small and difficult to read. The book was published by Franklin Classics and imprinted by Creative Media Partners.