1st Edition
Death and the Maiden (Routledge Revivals) Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology
By Ken Dowden
Copyright 2014
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Maps; Preface 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 Daughters 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; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index; Index of Modern Authors
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