From Marginalian Editions, a remarkable essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison, hero to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard, exploring seemingly opposing forces from magic and theology to peace and patriotism.Published at the outset of World War I, the essay collection Alpha and Omega was the capstone of the remarkable career of Jane Ellen Harrison, the iconoclastic classics scholar who became legendary as t...

«Jane Ellen Harrison encarna el desarrollo de un poder intelectual que considero no solo notable sino inmenso».VIRGINIA WOOLF«Jane Ellen Harrison cambió el modo en que pensamos en la cultura de la antigua Grecia, arañando ese apacible exterior de mármol blanco para revelar debajo algo mucho más violento, enmarañado y extático. Fue además la primera mujer en Inglaterra en convertirse en académica, en un sentido plenamente profesional: una investigadora y profesora universita...

"Ancient Art and Ritual" by Jane Ellen Harrison is a groundbreaking work that explores the deep connection between ancient religious rituals and the development of art in human history. Harrison, a classical scholar and one of the founders of modern anthropology of religion, argues that many forms of art, including theater, sculpture, and music, originated from primitive religious ceremonies and rituals.The book examines how early humans used ritual as a means of expressing and understandi...

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Explore the intricate tapestry of ancient art and ritual in this enlightening volume, where Jane Ellen Harrison unveils the profound connection between these two seemingly disparate domains. The book delves deep into the historical roots of art and ritual, illustrating their intertwined evolution through the lens of ancient Greek drama, particularly the festivals of Dionysus. It challenges modern perceptions of art and ritual as separate entities, arguing for their shared origin and mutual...

Harrisons' "Religion of Ancient Greece" is a symbol of the intellectual progress of the early 20th century as the formerly hegemonic importance of Rome gave way to interpreting and studying religions based on older and localized archaeological remains and prior analysis from deep antiquity. Here then we have a description of various deities, their history, and allusions to them in Homer and debate over then-contemporary historians.-Print ed.

Primitive Athens as Described by Thucydides by Jane Ellen Harrison offers a fascinating exploration of ancient Athens, focusing on its early history and cultural development as interpreted through the lens of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. A leading classical scholar and pioneer in the study of ancient Greek religion, Harrison brings her deep knowledge and innovative methods to this work, combining literary analysis, archaeology, and anthropology to reconstruct a picture of ...

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 same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, bes...

The traveller who visits Athens for the first time will naturally, if he be a classical scholar, devote himself at the outset to the realization of the city of Perikles. His task will here be beset by no serious difficulties. The Acropolis, as Perikles left it, is, both from literary and monumental evidence, adequately known to us. Archaeological investigation has now but little to add to the familiar picture, and that little in matters of quite subordinate detail. The Parthenon, the Propy...

Reminiscences of a Student’s Life by Jane Ellen Harrison is an intimate, vivid, and deeply thoughtful recollection of a mind awakening to knowledge and possibility. In audiobook form, Harrison’s reflections come alive with emotional clarity, allowing listeners to step directly into the halls, libraries, and quiet corners where a brilliant scholar first discovered her voice, her purpose, and the intellectual passions that shaped her life.The value of this audiobook ...

"Every dogma religion has hitherto produced is probably false, but for all that the religious or mystical spirit may be the only way of apprehending some things, and these of enormous importance. It may also be that the contents of this mystical apprehension cannot be put into language without being falsified and misstated, that they have rather to be felt and lived than uttered and intellectually analyzed; yet they are somehow true and necessary to life."

Progelomena To The Study Of Greek Religionby Jane Ellen HarrisonJane 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...