Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion

About this eBook

Author

Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928

Original Publication

Cambridge: University Press, 1903.

Credits

deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Cults -- Greece

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78248

Release Date

March 19, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. OLYMPIAN AND CHTHONIC RITUAL. — The Diasia. — ATTIC CALENDAR.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. THE ANTHESTERIA. The Ritual of Ghosts and Sprites. — Anthesterion and February. — The Ritual of Ἐναγισμοί.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. HARVEST FESTIVALS. The Thargelia, Kallynteria, Plynteria. — Thargelion and Thargelia. — The Pharmakos. — Kallynteria, Plynteria.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. THE WOMEN’S FESTIVALS. Thesmophoria, Arrephoria, Skirophoria, Stenia, Haloa. — The Thesmophoria. — Arrephoria, Skirophoria, Stenia. — The Curse and the Law. — The Haloa. — The Eleusinian Mysteries.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS. — The Ker as Ghost and Sprite. — The Keres of Old Age and Death. — The Ker as Harpy and Wind-demon. — The Ker as Fate. — The Ker as Gorgon. — The Ker as Siren ⁠ [508] . — The Ker as Sphinx. — The Ker as Erinys. — The Erinyes of Aeschylus. — The Tragic Erinyes. — The Erinys as Snake. — The ‘Semnai Theai.’ — The Eumenides.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. THE MAKING OF A GODDESS. — The Mother and the Maid. — The Earth-Mother as Karpophoros or Lady of the Wild Things. — The Mother as Kourotrophos. — Demeter and Kore. — The Anodos of the Maiden Earth-goddesses. — Pandora. — The Maiden-Trinities. — The ‘Judgment of Paris.’ — Athene. — Aphrodite. — Hera.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. THE MAKING OF A GOD. — The Hero as Snake. — The Cultus-Titles. — Asklepios and the Heroes of Healing. — The ‘Hero-Feasts.’ — Dionysos on Hero-reliefs.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. DIONYSOS. — Dionysos an immigrant Thracian. — The Satyrs. — The Maenads. — Dionysos Liknites. — Dionysos Son of Semele. — Dionysos Son of Zeus. — Bromios. Braites. Sabazios. — Dionysos the Tree-God (Dendrites). — Dionysos the Bull-God. — Dithyrambos and the Dithyramb.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. ORPHEUS. — Orpheus as Magical Musician. — The Death of Orpheus. — The Hero-shrine of Orpheus. — Orpheus at Athens. — The Cardinal Doctrine of Orphism.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. ORPHIC MYSTERIES. — a. The Omophagia. — The Hosioi and Hosia. — The Liknophoria. — The Sacred Marriage. — Orphic elements in Eleusinian Ritual.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY. — a. The Orphic Tablets. — The Well of Mnemosyne. — The Sybaris Tablets. — The Ritual Formularies. — b. Orphic Vases of Lower Italy. — The Danaides.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. ORPHIC COSMOGONY. — The World-Egg. — Eros as Herm. — Eros as Ker of Life. — Eros as Ephebos. — Eros and the Mother. — The Mysteries of Eros and the Mother at Phlya. — Pythagorean Revival of the Mother. — Eros as Phanes, Protogonos, Metis, Erikapaios.
17. 17.CRITICAL APPENDIX ON THE ORPHIC TABLETS. — I. The Petelia Tablet. — II. Three tablets from Crete (Eleuthernae?) now in the National Museum at Athens. — III. Timpone Grande Tablet (a). — IV. Timpone Grande Tablet (b). — V., VI. and VII. The Compagno Tablets. — V. Compagno Tablet (a). — VI. Compagno Tablet (b). — VII. Compagno Tablet (c). — VIII. The Tablet of Caecilia Secundina.
18. 18.FOOTNOTES
19. 19.INDEX. — I. GREEK. — II. GENERAL.

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