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Author
Series
Mythologiques volume 1
Pub. Date
1969
Edition
[1st U.S. ed.]
Physical Desc
xiii, 387 pages : illustrations, chart, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
xxii, 682 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same...
Author
Series
Mythologiques volume 3
Pub. Date
1978
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
551 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
New ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 358 pages, 1 unnumbered page : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy continues to be a subject of enormous interest among Western Christians, and the author believes that an understanding of its standpoint is necessary before the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches can be reunited. He explains the Orthodox views on such widely...