Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identifythe primitive substratum of ritual and its persistence in the realm ofclassical religi... » 

Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identifythe primitive substratum of ritual and its persistence in the realm ofclassical religious observance and literature. In Harrisons preface to thisremarkable book she writes that J. G. Frazers work had become part and parcelof her mental furniture and that of others studying primitive religion.Today those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the sameabout Harrison. Her essential ideas best developed and most clearly put in theProlegomena have never been eclipsed. «