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Index
Cover
Half Title
Full Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and transliterations
PART I Introduction
1 Initiation: a concept with a troubled history
PART II Female initiations
2 What kind of rite of passage was the Ancient Greek wedding?
3 Playing the bear and the fawn for Artemis: female initiation or substitute sacrifice?
PART III Vidal-Naquet’s Black Hunter
4 Adolescent initiation in myth and tragedy: rethinking the Black Hunter
5 Liminality as metaphor: initiation and the frontiers of Ancient Athens
PART IV Initiation and the male community
6 Adolescent hair-growing and hair-cutting rituals in Ancient Greece: a sociological approach
7 Striding across boundaries: Hermes and Aphrodite as gods of initiation
PART V Initiation and narrative patterns
8 “Initiation” in myth; “initiation” in practice: the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and its performative context
9 Who in hell is Heracles? Dionysus’ disastrous disguise in Aristophanes’ Frogs
PART VI The initiation of ritual experts
10 Evenius becomes a seer (Herodotus 9.93–5): a paradoxical initiation?
11 The initiation of the magician: transition and power in Graeco-Roman Ritual
PART VII Afterwords
12 The initiatory paradigm in anthropology, folklore and history of religions
13 Initiations and initiatory experience
Bibliography
Subject index
Index locorum
Foreign word index
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