Jane Ellen Harrison transformed the study of Greek religion with her discovery of a religious system predating that of the Olympic gods and goddesses familiar to the modern world. This biography introduces her work and ideas, which have influenced and profoundly shaped scholarship, primarily in the classics, throughout the last century. Through her penetrating study of Greek art and epigraphy, she found evidence of rituals of this religion that had been hiding in plain sight for centuries. This earlier religion had a darker, chthonic character in which goddesses, underworld divinities, and daemons played a much larger role.
| ISBN: | 9781807580513 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 2026 |
| Author: | Robert Stroup |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 136 pages |
| Series: | Anthropology's Ancestors |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Ancient Greek religion and mythology Biography: philosophy and social sciences |
Jane Ellen Harrison transformed the study of Greek religion with her discovery of a religious system predating that of the Olympic gods and goddesses familiar to the modern world. This biography introduces her work and ideas, which have influenced and profoundly shaped scholarship, primarily in the classics, throughout the last century.
Jane Ellen Harrison features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Biography: philosophy and social sciences
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Jane Ellen Harrison was written by Robert Stroup and published by Berghahn Books
Jane Ellen Harrison has 136 pages
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