Ancient Art and Ritual

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Ancient Art and Ritual Author: Jane Ellen Harrison Release Date: November 18, 2005 [EBook #17087] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL *** Produced by Thierry Alberto, Juliet Sutherland, Louise Pryor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Ancient Art and Ritual JANE ELLEN HARRISON Geoffrey Cumberlege OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO First published in 1913, and reprinted in 1918 (revised), 1919, 1927, 1935 and 1948 First published in 1913, and reprinted in 1918 (revised), 1919, 1927, 1935 and 1948 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN v PREFATORY NOTE It may be well at the outset to say clearly what is the aim of the present volume. The title is Ancient Art and Ritual, but the reader will find in it no general summary or even outline of the facts of either ancient art or ancient ritual. These facts are easily accessible in handbooks. The point of my title and the real gist of my argument lie perhaps in the word “and”—that is, in the intimate connection which I have tried to show exists between ritual and art.