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Tables of Contents for The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
 
Preface and Acknowledgments
xi
 
PART 1. THE TEXT AND TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY, AND BACKGROUND
1
76
Text and Translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
2
26
Commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
28
37
Background: The Eleusinian Mysteries and Women's Rites for Demeter
65
12
PART 2. INTERPRETIVE ESSAY ON THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER
77
102
Interpreting the Hymn to Demeter
83
1
The ``Theology'' of the Mysteries
84
13
Variants of the Myth and the Importance of the Version in the Hymn to Demeter
97
6
Female Experience in the Hymn to Demeter
103
1
Marriage
104
8
Gender Conflict and the Cosmological Tradition
112
6
The Mother/Daughter Romance
118
19
The Psychology of the Mysteries
137
5
The Hymn to Demeter and the Polis
142
8
Christianity and the Hymn to Demeter
150
1
The Influence of the Hymn to Demeter and Its Myth
151
18
Appendix
169
1
Eleusis and Athens
169
10
The Hymn to Demeter as a Panhellenic Poem
175
4
PART 3. FURTHER INTERPRETATION: CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES
179
87
Withdrawal and Return: An Epic Story Pattern in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and in the Homeric Poems
181
9
Mary Louise Lord
Some Functions of the Demophoon Episode in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
190
8
Nancy Felson-Rubin
Harriet M. Deal
Concerning the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
198
14
Jean Rudhardt
Lavinia Lorch
Helene P. Foley
Politics and Pomegranates: An Interpretation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
212
31
Marilyn Arthur
Family Structure and Feminine Personality
243
23
Nancy Chodorow
Bibliography
266
15
Bibliographical Addendum
281
2
Index Locorum
283
6
General Index
289