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    Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar and linguist. With Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, Harrison is...
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  • scholarship, fiction and mythology of his time, in particular the work of Jane Ellen Harrison and other Cambridge Ritualists. Hungarian scholar of Greek mythology...
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  • of these scholars (e.g., W. Robertson-Smith, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, S. H. Hooke) supported the "primacy of ritual" hypothesis, which...
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    initiation ritual linked to a warrior victory celebration. Both Jane Ellen Harrison and the French classicist Henri Jeanmaire have shown that both the...
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    shown, for instance, on the Alexander Mosaic and the Gonzaga Cameo. Jane Ellen Harrison claims that many cultures use similar ritual masks in order to scare...
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    part of Dionysus. Some 19th- and 20th-century scholars, including Jane Ellen Harrison, have argued that an initiatory or shamanic ritual underlies the...
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    relationship with the classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, Mirrlees' tutor and later her friend and collaborator. Mirrlees and Harrison lived together from 1913 until...
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    Chrysaor, a giant wielding a golden sword, sprang from her body. Jane Ellen Harrison argues that "her potency only begins when her head is severed, and...
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  • Jane Harrison may refer to: Jane Irwin Harrison (1804–1846), daughter-in-law and hostess of United States President William Henry Harrison Jane Ellen...
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    before she lost her wings. "Athena, by the time she appears in art," Jane Ellen Harrison remarks, "has completely shed her animal form, has reduced the shapes...
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    Works and Days states that Hesiod shows no awareness [of this]." Jane Ellen Harrison also turned to the repertory of vase-painters to shed light on aspects...
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  • magic and religion, The Golden Bough (1890), and in the works of Jane Ellen Harrison. The work is mentioned by T. S. Eliot in the notes to his poem The...
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  • collection of essays, lectures, and letters written by Jane Ellen Harrison and published for Harrison during the outbreak of World War I. Crabbed Age and...
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  • them the names of Cleta and Phaenna. Her name means "renowned". Jane Ellen Harrison (1991). Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-6910-1514-9...
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    (1991). "Introduction". Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (Reprint ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-01514-9...
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    rotting away, rags of skin shriveling on their bones." As linguist Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928) notes of "The Ker as siren": "It is strange and beautiful...
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    religions that were proposed by scholars such as Johann Jakob Bachofen, Jane Ellen Harrison, and Marija Gimbutas, and later popularized by second-wave feminism...
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    of Immortality, 1921. Jane Ellen Harrison, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, 1912. Jane Ellen Harrison, Epilegomena to the Study...
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    the Romantics. The work of mythographers such as J.G. Frazer and Jane Ellen Harrison helped inspire the recasting of myths in modern terms by Victorian...
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    implement taken over and mysticized by the religion of Dionysus," Jane Ellen Harrison remarked. Dionysus Liknites ("Dionysus of the winnowing fan") was...
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  • group of classical scholars, mostly in Cambridge, England, including Jane Ellen Harrison, F.M. Cornford, Gilbert Murray (actually from the University of Oxford)...
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    Meilichios, who was propitiated in Athens by archaic rituals, as Jane Ellen Harrison demonstrated in detail in Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion...
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  • and collaborated with scholars including Edward Byles Cowell and Jane Ellen Harrison, to whom he may have been engaged at the time of his death. Neil...
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  • feminist Jane Ellen Harrison. Harrison is presented in the essay only by her initials separated by long dashes, and Woolf first introduces Harrison as "the...
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    Geology of Mimas?, in 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Jane Ellen Harrison (1908) "Orphic Mysteries", in Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion...
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    with her wedding wreath, according to a fragment of Bacchylides. Jane Ellen Harrison recognized in the poetic treatment an authentic echo of Amphitrite's...
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  • gave them the names of Kleta and Phaenna. Her name means "Bright". Jane Ellen Harrison (1991). Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-6910-1514-9...
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    justice (symbol) Libra Particular judgment Punishment of the Grave Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1922), p. 183f; Isaac...
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    Philologie Neue Folge, 117. Bd., H. 3/4 (1974), pp. 193-201. [1] Harrison, Jane Ellen. Myths of Greece and Rome. 1928. pp. 12-14 Keary, Charles Francis...
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    kouroi, and Apollon was the megistos kouros (The Great Kouros) : Jane Ellen Harrison (2010): Themis: A study to the Social origins of Greek Religion Cambridge...
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