Jane Ellen Harrison
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| - | [[Harold Bloom]] writes in the margin of a draft of [[Paglia]]'s dissertation "Mere Sontagisme!" Paglia comments later: "It saddened me, but I knew Bloom was right. Sontag, who could have been [[Jane Ellen Harrison |Jane Harrison]]'s successor as a supreme woman scholar, had become synonymous with a shallow kind of hip posturing." --wikipedia draft | + | [[Harold Bloom]] writes in the margin of a draft of [[Paglia]]'s dissertation "Mere Sontagisme!" Paglia comments later: "It saddened me, but I knew Bloom was right. Sontag, who could have been [[Jane Ellen Harrison |Jane Harrison]]'s successor as a supreme woman scholar, had become synonymous with a shallow kind of hip posturing." --Sholem Stein |
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| + | "[[Greek religion]], as set forth in popular handbooks and even in more ambitious treatises, is an affair mainly of [[mythology]], and moreover of mythology as seen through the medium of literature. In England, so far as I am aware, no serious attempt has been made to examine Greek ritual. Yet the facts of ritual are more easy definitely to ascertain, more permanent, and at least equally significant. What a people does in relation to its gods must always be one clue, and perhaps the safest, to what it thinks. The first preliminary to any scientific understanding of Greek religion is a minute examination of its ritual."--''[[Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion]]'' (1903) by Jane Ellen Harrison | ||
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Harold Bloom writes in the margin of a draft of Paglia's dissertation "Mere Sontagisme!" Paglia comments later: "It saddened me, but I knew Bloom was right. Sontag, who could have been Jane Harrison's successor as a supreme woman scholar, had become synonymous with a shallow kind of hip posturing." --Sholem Stein "Greek religion, as set forth in popular handbooks and even in more ambitious treatises, is an affair mainly of mythology, and moreover of mythology as seen through the medium of literature. In England, so far as I am aware, no serious attempt has been made to examine Greek ritual. Yet the facts of ritual are more easy definitely to ascertain, more permanent, and at least equally significant. What a people does in relation to its gods must always be one clue, and perhaps the safest, to what it thinks. The first preliminary to any scientific understanding of Greek religion is a minute examination of its ritual."--Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903) by Jane Ellen Harrison |
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Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Greek mythology. She applied 19th century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of Greek religion in ways that have become standard. Contemporary classics scholar Mary Beard, Harrison's biographer, has described her as "in a way ... [Britain's] first female professional 'career academic'". Ellen Wordsworth Crofts, later second wife of Sir Francis Darwin was Jane Harrison's best friend from her student days at Newham, and during the period from 1898 to her early death in 1903.
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Bibliography
Greek topics
Books on the anthropological search for the origins of Greek religion and mythology, include:
- Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903, revised 1908, 1922)
- Heresy and Humanity (1911)
- Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion (1912, revised 1927)
- Ancient Art and Ritual (1912+)
- Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1921)
Essays and reflections
- Alpha and Omega (1915)
- Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925)
See also
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A Glastonbury Romance, A Room of One's Own, Agnes Conway, Alpha and Omega (Harrison book), Amphitrite, Anthesteria, Apotropaic magic, Apotropaic magic, Art Bears, Athena, Bees in mythology, Benandanti, Blanche Wheeler Williams, Bloomsbury Group in LGBT history, Brimo, Cambridge Ritualists, Camille Paglia, Charles Kay Ogden, Charon's obol, Cheltenham Ladies' College, Claudius Aelianus, Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons, Demeter, Dionysus, Dorothy Lamb, Dying-and-rising deity, Ecstatic dance, Eliza Marian Butler, Ellen Wordsworth Darwin, Eubuleus, F. M. Cornford, From Ritual to Romance, G. M. Hirst, Gilbert Murray, Gorgoneion, Gorgythion, Grace Macurdy, Greek mythology, Hera, History of banking, Holocaust (sacrifice), Homo Necans, Hope Mirrlees, Iacchus, Index of women scientists articles, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Kanathos, Keres, Kibbo Kift, Korybantes, Kouros, Lerna, Lernaean Hydra, List of authors by name: H, List of Bloomsbury Group people, List of English writers (D–J), List of feminists, List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: H, List of suffragists and suffragettes, List of titles in the Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, List of University of Cambridge people, List of women classicists, List of women in the Heritage Floor, List of women linguists, List of women who died in childbirth, Lud-in-the-Mist, Maenad, Mamuralia, Margaret Murray, Margaret Verrall, Maria Millington Lathbury, Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, Mary Beard (classicist), Matriarchal religion, Matriarchy, Maxime Collignon, Mecklenburgh Square, Medusa, Meilichios, Mermaid, Modern understanding of Greek mythology, Moirai, Myth and ritual, Niobe, Notting Hill and Ealing High School, Omphalos, Onomacritus, Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, Pandora, Pluto (mythology), Poppy goddess, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Proto-Indo-European mythology, Pyanopsia, Python (mythology), Sacrificial tripod, Satrae, Serpent symbolism, Sexual Personae, Siren (mythology), Skira, Suffragette, Textiles in folklore, The Counterplot, The Golden Bough, The Lodge (band), The Night Battles, The Triumph of the Moon, Themis, Thesmophoria, Tina Passman, Titans, Tityos, Totem and Taboo, Triple Goddess (Neopaganism), Walter Burkert, Winnowing
