Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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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.
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Initiation rites -- Mythology.
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Mythology, Greek.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
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Girls -- Mythology
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Initiation rites -- Mythology
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Mythology, Greek
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781317745457 |
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1317745450 |
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9781315794754 |
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1315794756 |
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9781317745464 |
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1317745469 |
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