Initiation in ancient Greek rituals and narratives : new critical perspectives / edited by David B. Dodd and Christopher A. Faraone.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:London ; New York : Routledge, 2011وصف:xix, 294 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415289203
- 9780415511056 (pbk)
- BL795.I55 I55 2011
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | BL795.I55 I55 2011 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011076863 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | BL795.I55 I55 2011 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011076859 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-279) and indexes.
Initiation : a concept with a troubled history / Fritz Graf -- What kind of rite of passage was the ancient Greek wedding? / Gloria Ferrari -- Playing the bear and the fawn for Artemis : female initiation or substitute sacrifice? / Christopher A. Faraone -- Adolescent initiation in myth and tragedy : rethinking the Black Hunter / David B. Dodd -- Liminality as metaphor : initiation and the frontiers of ancient Athens / Irene Polinskaya -- Adolescent hair-growing and hair-cutting rituals in ancient Greece : a sociological approach / David D. Leitao -- Striding across boundaries : Hermes and Aphrodite as gods of initiation / Nanno Marinatos -- "Initiation" in myth; "initiation" in practice : the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and its performative context / Sarah Iles Johnston -- Who in hell is Heracles? Dionysus' disastrous disguise in Aristophanes' Frogs / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III -- Evenius becomes a seer (Herodotus 9.93-5) : a paradoxical initiation? / Cristiano Grottanelli -- Initiation of the magician : transition and power in Graeco-Roman ritual / Ian Moyer -- Initiatory paradigm in anthropology, folklore and history of religions / Bruce Lincoln -- Initiations and initiatory experience / James M. Redfield.
An international group of experts in Greek religion and society challenge the privileged status of initiation as a paradigm in classical studies. The cases used range widely, from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiation in Greek myth, tragedy and comedy.
"First published in 2003. First issued in paperback ed in2011".