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Author Dowden, Ken, 1950- author.

Title Death and the maiden : girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology / Ken Dowden
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014
©1989

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge revivals
Routledge revivals.
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
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
Notes Previously issued in print: 2014
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2019)
Subject Girls -- Mythology.
Initiation rites -- Mythology.
Mythology, Greek.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
Girls -- Mythology
Initiation rites -- Mythology
Mythology, Greek
Form Electronic book
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