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. Further, Professor Dowden examines...
A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees,...
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. Further, Professor Dowden examines...
A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees,...
