SUBJECT INDEX

Abantes 23, 129, 133, 137

Acarnania 11, 13, 207, 213, 216, 277, 278, 288

Achaean 48, 90, 129

Achaia 204

Acheron 37, 51, 66

Achilles 14, 48, 90, 117, 121, 142, 176, 203

Acropolis 100, 102, 130, 148

Acte 18

Aegean 48–9, 50

Aegeus 30

Aeschines 161–2

Aeschylus 161, 182, 184, 185, 186, 188, 193

Agamemnon 48, 52, 58

Agathocles 40

Agathos Daimon 222, 232

Agethor 178

Agrai 65

Agyrion 128

Aichelochis 67

Aigaleos 94

Ajax 16

Alcibiades 193

Aletheia 209

Alexander the Great 234

Alexandria 225, 226, 229

Alexippus 58

Alighieri, Dante 10

Aloadae 48

Alpheios 119, 168, 169

Amarynthos 112, 121

Amasis Painter 33, 140

Amazon 140

Ammon 226

Amun 233, 234

Amynais 124

Anacreon 122

Anastasi papyri 226

Anatolia 48

Anchises 142, 144

Andrewes, Antony 256

Antinous 232

Antipara 67

Apatouria 87, 88, 91, 92, 102, 112, 116, 255

Aphidna 94, 96, 105

Aphobos 39

Aphrodite 13, 33, 67, 100, 130–51

Aphrodite Skotia 144

Aphthonetos 115

Apis 221, 232

Apollo 45, 48, 49, 53, 54, 60, 61, 111, 118, 120–1, 131, 133, 141–4, 157, 158, 159–60, 163–6, 169, 171, 172, 173, 175, 177, 178, 180, 206, 207, 209

Apollo Delphinios 48

Apollo Pythios 172, 180

Apollo, Amyclaean 65

Apollodorus 168

Apollonia 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 216

Apollonius of Tyana 209

Apollonius Rhodius 156

Arcadia 10, 15, 46, 50, 130, 148, 172, 200

Archilochus 209

Ares 64, 130

Arginousai 193, 196, 200

Argonauts 17

Argos 207

Ariadne 17

Aristodemos 119

Aristophanes 55, 63, 182–200

Aristotle 256

Artemis 43–68, 89, 142, 172, 175

Artemis Agrotera 65, 101

Artemis Elaphebolion 65

Artemis Orthia 16, 65, 200

Artemis Pagasitis 58

Artemis Throsia 58

Artemis Triklaria 65

Artemis, Munychian 52, 53

Artemisia 64

Asclepius 115, 175, 225, 226, 228, 229

Asia Minor 225

Astarte 123, 143

Athena 12, 13, 16, 31, 64, 100, 162

Athena Ilias 16

Athena Polias 13, 45, 100

Athena Skiras 89

Athena, Coan 13

Athens 11, 18, 28, 43–68, 86, 87, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 120, 121, 130, 182, 187, 189, 190, 192, 193, 198

Atrax 58

Attica 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 91, 93–8, 101, 111, 130

Aulis 17, 52, 58, 59, 60

Aurelius 115

Bacchus 4

Bader, Françoise 158

Bar Mitzvah 257

Baros 54

Baucis 35

Bdelycleon 124–5, 127

bear 43–62 passim

beards 115, 124

Bedouin 228

Bellerophon 64

Berenice 127

Bernal, Martin 7

Berytus 117

Bias 207

Bithynia 128

Blitz, the 249

Bly, Robert 242

Boehme, Jakob 248

Boeotia 44, 87, 93, 209

Bond, James 18

Bowie 187, 188

Brauron 43–68

Brauronia 51, 52, 55, 57, 67, 250, 259

Brauronian Artemis 48, 52

Brelich, Angelo 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 27, 45, 71, 72, 156, 249

Bremmer, Jan xiii, 6, 163, 167

Britanny 10

Brulé, Pierre 12, 13

Burkert, Walter xiii, 7, 12, 13, 17, 18, 50, 100, 141, 155, 203, 216

Caesar 235

Calame, Claude xiii, 6

Callias, 200, 205, 206–7

Callisto 17, 49, 50, 64

Camarina 169

Campbell, Joseph xiii

Canopus 223

Cassandra 16, 32

Cássola 160

Cecropids 13

Celts 13, 326

Cephisus 127, 187

Cerberus 190, 191, 192, 199

Chalkis 123

Chantraine, Pierre 30, 89, 97

Chaonnophris 235

Charites 175

Charon 193, 199

China xv

Chiron 175

Chon 204

Christianity 244

Chthonia 33–5

Cicero 4

Cithaeron 255

City Dionysia, the 101

Claudius 225

Clazomenae 212

Clement 58

Clytiadae 206, 207

Clytius 207

Cnidians 65

Columella 210

Coomaraswamy, Amanda 242

Corbin, Henri 242

Corinth 113, 205, 206, 216

Cos 60, 66

Crete 10, 15, 16, 20, 119, 130, 155, 158

Cronus 169

Croton 205, 206

cultural exchange 229–30

Cumae 119

Cyprus 57

Cyrene 57, 60, 66, 67

Cyzicus 193

dancing 45, 61, 62

Daphne 120

de Polignac 86

de Saussure, Ferdinand 72, 77

dedication to the gods 54, 56

Deinomenes 65

Deïphonus 203, 205, 206, 207, 210, 216

Delian 49

Delos 49, 173

Delphi 30, 57, 65, 111, 117, 120, 164, 173–4, 204, 210, 214, 215

Delphic Oracle 16, 163

Delphinon 48

Delta 226

Demeter 57, 67, 118, 170, 175, 198

Demophon 39

Demosthenes 28, 30

Dendera 223, 228

Depew, Mary 167, 170

Derrida xiii

Didyma 48

Didymus Chalkentros 53, 55

Diia 177

Diisoteria 101

Dike 209

Dionisoparsifal 196

Dionysius Thrax 178

Dionysus 5, 9, 102, 118, 131, 140, 145, 150, 175, 181–200

Dionysus Nyseios 185

Dioscuri 175, 177

Diospolis 225

divination 224, 225–6, 227, 230, 236

Dodona 57, 204, 210, 214, 215

Donnay, Guy 12, 13, 14

Dover 190

Dowden, Ken 15, 17, 47, 156

Dreros 9, 131, 148

drinking 220, 221

Dromeus 179

drowning 220–1, 232

Dumézil, Georges 242

Dunatis 58

Durkheim, Emile 245, 246

Dylan, Bob 249

Earth 34, 35

Edfu 223, 228, 233

Edmonds, Radcliffe 256

Egypt 219–38

Ekdusia 121, 129

Elea 209

Elean 206, 210, 212, 216

Eleusinia 101

Eleusinian xv, 187, 190, 248, 249

Eleusinian Games 172

Eleusinian mysteries 4, 66, 111, 170, 187, 188, 189, 190, 198

Eleusinian Telesterion 66

Eleusis 9, 34, 43, 44, 94, 95, 118, 187, 188, 189, 198, 256, 257

Eleutherai 94, 105

Eliade, Mircea xiii, xv, 7, 8, 19, 73, 182, 183, 242, 243, 249, 250

Elis 168, 199, 207

Embaros 53, 54, 58, 59, 60

Empedocles 215

Empousa 185, 199

Enagonios 171

Enkidu 143

Ennead 233

Enyalios 65

Epharmostos 61

Ephesus 57

Ephorus 16

Epimenides 209

Er 19

Eretrians 162

Erichthonios 13

Eros 100, 130

Erythrae 48, 215

ethnicity 226

Eubioteia 58

Euboea 123, 124

Euenus 218

Eumaeus 164

Euphorion 35, 52

Euripides 30, 63, 113, 182, 184–5, 186, 190, 194

Europe 243

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 247

Evenius 203–18

Evola, Julius 242, 243

Faiyum 226

fawn 50

Finnis, John 78

Forde, Dorylle 247

Fortes, Meyer 247

Foucault xiii

foundation myth 58–9

Founding Goddess 45

Four Hundred, the 199, 200

Fox, Robin Lane 98

France 5

Frazer 4, 5, 7, 246

Frobenius, Leo 7

frontier 86–107 passim

Furies 31

Gandhi, Mahatma 249

Ge 34

Geb 232

Geertz, Clifford 76

Germany 5

Gernet, Louis 6, 30

Geryon 159

Gilgamesh 143

Glaucus 127

Gluckman, Max 247, 248

Gnosis 244

Graf, Fritz 72, 217

Griffiths, Alan 203, 217

Guénon, Réné 242, 243, 244

Gyges 121, 129

Hades 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37, 142, 151, 175, 182, 190, 191, 192, 198, 199, 200

Haft, Adele 159, 160

Haight-Ashbury 249

Haimon 37

hairstyles 111–12, 118–26

Halai 46

Haloa 187

Haronnophris 235

Harpocration 52, 54, 56, 58

Harpon Knouphi 222

Harrison, Jane Ellen 5, 6, 7, 9

Harsiese 233

Hathor 228

Hatzopoulus, Michael 9

hawk 232

Hebe 33

Hector 123

Hegel 248

Hegemonios 178

Hegias 205, 207

Hegisistratus 205, 206, 207

Heinlein, Robert 3

Hekate 48

Helen 33, 175

Heliopolis 233

Helios 175, 178, 223

Hell’s Angels 249

Helots 75

Hephaesteia 101

Hephaestus 13, 130

Hera 33, 46, 48, 64, 131, 145, 169, 175

Hera Akraia 68

Heracleioxanthias 191

Heracles 33, 74, 80, 142, 159, 160, 166, 175, 181, 182, 185, 186, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 198, 199

Heraia 177

Hermaia 161–3, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177

Hermes 130–52, 157–80. Hermes Agonios 161, 171, 173, 174

Hermes Kedrites 132

Hermodorus 212

Hermotimus 212

Herodotus 96, 203, 210, 212, 213, 214, 216, 217

Herse 13, 151

Herzfeld, Michael 158, 160, 166

Hesiod 9, 215

Hesychius 30, 52, 54, 55, 56, 112, 113, 116

Hippolochos 58

Hippolytus 73, 74, 113, 144

Holmes, Sherlock 78

Homer 9, 214, 215, 255

Hor 221

Horus 221, 222, 223, 232, 233

Hubert, Harri 5, 208, 209

hunting 49–50, 65–6

Huron 3, 4

Hygieia 115

Hymettos 94

Hyperborean Maidens 49

Iacchos 185, 199

Iamidae 206, 207

Iamus 206, 207

ibis 232

Ihwere 232

Imhotep 225, 226, 228

Indo-European 10, 158, 159, 160, 161

initiation by proxy see representative initiation

Io 17

Iolchus 156

Ion 73

Ionian 44, 48

Ionian Gulf 203

Ionic 48–9, 60, 61

Ipet-Sut 233

Iphigeneia 17, 50, 52, 58, 59

Iphinoe 113

Ireland 10

Iroquois 3, 4

Isaeus 38

Iser, Wolfgang 76

Ishtar 143

Isis 221, 232

Israel xv

Isthmian Games 172

Jameson, M. H. 97

Jason 17, 18, 73, 156

Jeanmaire, Henri xiii, 6, 7, 12, 71, 72, 242, 250

Judaism 257

Jung, C. G. xiii, 244

Kali Yuga 244

Kalligeneia 175

Karnak 222, 233

Kato Syme 131, 132, 134, 137, 138, 141–5, 150

Kedrites 150

Kenmet 222

Khronos 34, 43, 255

king, induction of 223, 233 n. 37

Kingsley, Peter 209

Kinyras 67

Kition 123, 124

Kleugenes 67

Kore 175

Kouretes 5, 119, 123, 129

Kourotrophos 175

Kruchten 223

Lacmon 204

laconizing 124–26

Lada-Richards 181, 183, 184, 186, 188

Lafitau, Josèphe 3, 4, 5, 9, 131, 216

Lang, Andrew 5

Larisa 58

Las 176

Lato 131

Lebadaea 209, 211, 212, 213

Lebessi, A. 132, 135

lekanomancy 236

Lemnos 74, 80

Lenaia 199

Lessing 8

Leto 15, 45, 175

Leukippe 15

Leukippedes 67

Leukippos 15, 16, 119, 120

Levi-Strauss, Claude xiii, 72, 77, 250, 256

Lewis, Gilbert 9, 14

Lincoln, Bruce xiii, 6, 38, 46, 158

Litany of Re 223, 233

Locri 33, 35, 145

Locrian Maidens 13, 14, 16

London 249, 256

Lucian 32

Luxor 234

Lycurgus 15, 18

Lydia 129

Lykaia 46

Lysias 45, 52–4, 56

MacDowell 29

Maenads 140

Magnes 121, 122, 129

Maia 159, 165, 166, 173, 175

Makron 33

Mal 123

Mantitheos 129

Marathon 65, 120, 124, 160

Marathonian Tetrapolis 49

marginality 219, 220–1

marriage, Pinney passim, 56–57, 60, 62

Mauss, Marcel 5, 208, 209, 245, 246, 248

Mecca 256

Medea 18, 68, 113, 151, 156

Medusa 142, 157

Megalopolis 178

Megara 93, 113

Megillus 83

Megistias 205, 206, 207

Meillet, Antoine 245

Melampus 159, 206, 207

Melanion 85, 89, 91, 92, 98

Melanthius 58

Melanthus 85, 87, 91

Melicertes 127, 171

Memphis 265

Menelaus 48, 200

Merib 232

Messene 67

Messenia 176

metaphor 91–4

Milan 203

Miletus 48

miniaturization in ritual 224, 230

Minos 17

Minotaur 17

Mistress of the Animals 49

Mnesiepes 209

Moorton 186

Moses 232

Mt. Chelydorea 173

Mt. Cyllene 172, 173

Mt. Lycaeus 180

Much, Rudolf 241

Munn, Mark 94, 95, 96

Munychia 18, 45, 52–4, 58, 60, 61, 101

Murray, Gilbert 5, 6

Murray, Oswyn 167

Muses 209

Mycale 205, 206, 207, 216

Myrtilus 172

mysteries 187, 188, 189, 198, 200

mystery cults 43, 55–6, 62, 66, 244

mystery initiation 1–2

Naneferkaptah 232, 235

narratives of initiation 224–31

Ndembu 249

Neaira 27

Neanderthal 50

Nechepso 225, 226, 230, 235

Nemean Games 172

Neoptolemus 74, 75, 79, 80

Nephthys 232

Nereus 232

Nero 225

Nestor 159, 160, 166, 175

Nietzsche 241

Nike 67

Nile 222, 232

Nilsson, Martin 6

Niobe 64

Nussbaum, Martha xiv, 78

Nutcracker 257

Ober, Josiah 95

Odysseus 48, 74, 75, 79, 80, 151, 198, 214

Oedipus 175, 255

Ogenos 34

Oinoe 94, 96, 105

Oliver, George 3, 4, 9

Olympia 46, 64, 169, 171, 173, 174, 179

Olympic Games 24, 168, 169, 172, 174, 177

Olympus 142, 175

Opening the Mouth 223, 224

Opheltes 171

Ophioneus 215

Opous 162

Oricum 204

Orion 65, 222, 233

Orpheus 190

Orphic 5, 9, 248, 249

Osborne, Robin 94

Oschophoria 88, 89, 101, 255

Oserapis 221

Osiris 221, 222, 232, 233

Oxyrhynchos 127

Pa-di-Amun 233

Pagasae-Demetrias 58

Palaikastro hymn 5

Panacton 96

Panamara 115, 116, 117, 128

Panathenaia 101

Panathenaic 47

Pandrosos 151

Paris 33, 74, 255

Park, Robert E. 71

Parmenides 209, 210

Parnes 94, 96

Paros 115, 126

Parthenon 33, 148

Patras 50, 65

pederasty 121–2

Peirithoos 190

Peisistratid 47, 48

Peleus 114, 117

Pellene 62–3, 172, 173, 175, 177, 180

Pellenian Games 176, 177

Peloponnese 15, 48, 49, 50, 172

Pelops 171, 172

Penelope 159

Pentelikon 94

performance theory 110–12, 118–20, 125–6

Persephone 33, 37, 57, 67, 142, 145, 151, 190, 192, 199

Perseus 142, 157

Phaeacian 177

Phaistos 15, 121

Phaleron 88, 89

Pheidippides 125

Phemius 214, 215

Pheneus 172, 173

Pherekydes 32

Philiaidae 51

Philocleon 124, 197

Philoctetes 74, 79, 80

Philombrotus 115

Philostratus 35

Philoxenia 176

Phineus 180, 215

Phoebus 31

Phoenician 228

Phormio 214

Phrynichus 53, 66

Phyle 96

Pierenne-Delforge, V. 13

Pindar 161, 162, 172, 173, 174

Piraeus 18, 53, 59

Pirithous 160

Pithenius 218

placation of the gods 55

plague 48

Plataea 205, 206

Plato 19, 161–2, 210–11, 214, 216, 248

Plutarch 19, 212, 213, 214, 216

Pluto 200

Plutus 175

Polycrates 123

Pompeii 200

Poseidon 17, 57, 115

Prasiai 49

Pre 232

Priam 142, 151

priestess 54, 56–7

priests 57, 222–4, 233–4

priests, Egyptian 219, 221, 222–31

passim, 233, 234

Proerosia 101, 149

Proitides 24

Promachos 162

Pronapos 124

Propp, Vladimir 17, 78, 156

Prusa 128

Psaumis 169

Ptah 221, 232

Ptolemies 235

Ptolemy III 223

purity/purification 220, 226, 230, 234

Pythagoras 67, 209

Pythagoreans xv

Pythia 165

Pythian Games 172, 173

Python 171

Q. Aemilius Saturninus 236

racing 45–6, 64

ransom 58

Re 222, 223, 232

Re-Atum 222

Redfield, James xiii, 6, 28

representative initiation 47, 64

Rg Veda 175

Rhamnous 93, 94, 96

Rhapsodes 52

Rhea 169, 179

Rhodes 162

Robertson, Noel 12

Romania 10

Rome 4, 12

sacred animals 221, 232

sacrifice 45–6, 48, 50, 55–61

saffron robe 55–7, 63

Samos 130

Samothrace 4

Samothracian xv

Samson 124

Saqqara 221, 222

Schon, Frithjof 242

Schurtz, Hans 5

Schurtz, Heinrich 27, 241

Seaford 35

Sebennytos 221

secrecy 220, 223, 227–9, 231, 233, 234, 237

Segal 181, 183, 184, 185, 256

Selinus 33

Semele 199

Setne I 232

Setne Khamwas 234, 235

Shu 232

Sicily 128

Simonides 161

Si-Osire 234

Sjoestedt, Marie-Louis 242

Skiras 88, 89

Skiron 89

Skiros 89

Skourta 96

Smerdies 122

Smith, Jonathan Z. 224, 230

Smith, Robertson 16

Smyrna 118

Socrates 210, 212

Solon 28

Songs 48, 61

Sophocles 79, 80, 194

Sounion 93, 94

Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane 6, 12

space, sacred 222–5, 230–1

Spain 10

Sparta 10, 15, 16, 65, 74, 89, 118, 119, 155, 200, 206, 207

Stheneboia 199

Stratonikeia 116, 118

Strepsiades 125

Stymphalus 179

Sybaris 205, 206

Syracuse 40, 176

Syria 143

Syro-Hittite 65

Syros 32, 33

Tacitus 241

Tangara 162, 176

Tartarus 165

Tefnut 232

Tegea 180

Teisamenus 205, 206, 207

Telemachus 159

Telliadae 206, 207

temple service 47, 50, 56–8, 60

Thaetetus 210

Thalamae 175

Thasos 118

Thebaid 226

Thebes 33, 37, 224, 225, 226, 227, 229

Thelys 205

Theodorus 210

Theoklymenos 212

Theoxenia 172, 173, 177, 180

Thera 66, 67, 119

Theramenes 191, 199, 200

Therapne 30, 40

Thermopylae 205, 206

Theseus 17, 18–19, 30, 73, 120, 123, 133, 144, 160, 190

Thesmophoria 175, 187

Thessalos 220–30, 236

Thessaly 10, 11, 44, 58, 60

Thirty, the 129

Thoeris 127

Thoth 221, 232

Timarchus 209, 211, 212, 213

Timocrates 30

Tiresias 37, 198, 215

Titans 5

tithe 58, 66, 67

Tityus 65

Tmolus 255

Tolstoy, Leo 249

Torah 257

transvestism 119–20

Tricrena 172

Triklaria 65

Troezen 18, 120, 144

Trophonius 209, 211, 212

Troy 16, 48, 74, 80, 114

Tuna el-Gebel 221, 222, 233

Turner, Victor xiii, xv, 19, 73, 247, 248, 249, 250, 256

Twelve Gods 168, 169, 173, 179

United States 5

Van Gennep, Arnold xiii, xv, 6, 7, 19, 38, 39, 46, 64, 71, 81, 90, 100, 182, 186, 187, 208, 209, 216, 217, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251, 256

Vari-Vouliagmeni 94

Vernant, Jean-Pierre xiii, 6, 209, 212

Versnel, Henk xiii, 12, 100

Vice Lords of Chicago 249

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre xiii, 6, 8, 47, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 97, 98, 102, 103, 155, 217, 242, 250, 255, 256

vows 112–18

Wales 10

Warundi 208

Wasserstrom, Steven 8

Webster, Hutton 241

Weiser, Lily 241

Wilamowitz 11

wildness 45, 47

Winkler, John 101

wolf 46

Wolff 29, 30

Woodstock 249

World War I 243

Xanthias 182, 188, 191, 192, 199, 200

Xanthus 87, 129

Xenophon 96

Zagreus 5

Zas 33–4

Zeitlin, Froma 258

Zeno 210

Zeus 5, 33, 48–9, 50, 116, 118, 142, 158, 164–5, 168, 169, 192, 255

Zeus Panamaros 116, 117