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Tables of Contents for Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures and tables
ix
List of contributors
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xvii
List of abbreviations and transliterations
xix
PART I Introduction
1
24
1 Initiation: a concept with a troubled history
3
22
FRITZ GRAF
PART II Female initiations
25
44
2 What kind of rite of passage was the Ancient Greek wedding?
27
16
GLORIA FERRARI
3 Playing the bear and the fawn for Artemis: female initiation or substitute sacrifice?
43
26
CHRISTOPHER A. FARAONE
PART III Vidal-Naquet's Black Hunter
69
38
4 Adolescent initiation in myth and tragedy: rethinking the Black Hunter
71
14
DAVID B. DODD
5 Liminality as metaphor: initiation and the frontiers of Ancient Athens
85
22
IRENE POLINSKAYA
PART IV Initiation and the male community
107
46
6 Adolescent hair-growing and hair-cutting rituals in Ancient Greece: a sociological approach
109
21
DAVID D. LEITAO
7 Striding across boundaries: Hermes and Aphrodite as gods of initiation
130
23
NANNO MARINATOS
PART V Initiation and narrative patterns
153
48
8 "Initiation" in myth; "initiation" in practice: the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and its performative context
155
26
SARAH ILES JOHNSTON
9 Who in hell is Heracles? Dionysus' disastrous disguise in Aristophanes' Frogs
181
20
RADCLIFFE G. EDMONDS III
PART VI The initiation of ritual experts
201
38
10 Eveninus becomes a seer (Herodotus 9.93-5): a paradoxical initiation?
203
16
CRISTIANO GROTTLNELLI
11 The initiation of the magician: transition and power in Graeco-Roman Ritual
219
20
IAN MOYER
PART VII Afterwords
239
21
12 The initiatory paradigm in anthropology, folklore and history of religions
241
19
BRUCE LINCOLN
l3 Initiations and initiatory experience
255
5
JAMES M. REDFIELD
Bibliography
260
20
Subject index
280
9
Index locorum
289
4
Foreign word index
293