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Death and the maiden : girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology
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Title
Death and the maiden : girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology / Ken Dowden.
ISBN
1315794756
1317745450
1317745469
9781315794754
9781317745457
9781317745464
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Copyright Notice Date
©1989
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Previously issued in print: 2014.
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Summary
A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins - slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees, and punished in Hades. Death and the Maiden, first published in 1989, contextualises this mythology in terms of geography, history and culture, and offers a comprehensive theory firmly grounded in an ubiquitous ritual: pubescent girls' rites of passage. By means of comparative anthropology, it is argued that many local ceremonies are echoed throughout the whole range of myths, both famous and obscure.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge revivals
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and indexes.
Contents
1. Origins of a mythology : a view from the grave
2. The north-east : Iphigeneia, deer, and bears
3. Thessalians and other Aeolic Greeks : Achilles and Leukippos
4. Tiryns : the daughter of Proitos
5. Triphylia : Melampous and the nymphs of Artemis
6. Mycenae : Io and Argos 'all-seeing'
7. Argos and Rhodes : the Danaids
8. Short stories from Achaia and Arcadia
9. Origins of a mythology : some conclusions.
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