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 and tragedy. In this books an international group of experts including Gloria Ferrari, Fritz Graf and Bruce Lincoln, critique many of these past studies, and challenge strongly the tradition of privileging the concept of initiation as a tool for studying social performances and literary texts, in which changes in status or group membership occur in unus…
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Weitere Autoren: Faraone, Christopher A. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-135-14365-7
- EAN: 9781135143657
- Produktnummer: 14831058
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'665 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 10 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
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