Initiation in ancient Greek rituals and narratives : new critical perspectives /

Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation'as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy a...

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Další autoři: Dodd, David Brooks, 1963- (Editor), Faraone, Christopher A., 1955- (Editor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003
Vydání:First published
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  • 7, Striding across boundaries : Hermes and Aphrodite as gods of initiation / Nanno Marinatos
  • 8, "Initiation" in myth; "initiation" in practice : the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and its performative context / Sarah Iles Johnston
  • 9, Who in hell is Heracles? Dionysus' disastrous disguise in Aristophanes' Frogs / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
  • 10, Evenius becomes a seer (Herodotus 9.93-5) : a paradoxical initiation? / Cristiano Grottanelli
  • 11, The initiation of the magician : transition and power in Graeco-Roman ritual / Ian Moyer
  • 12, The initiatory paradigm in anthropology, folklore and history of religions / Bruce Lincoln
  • 13, Initiations and initiatory experience / James M. Redfield