Harrison, Jane Ellen 1850-1928

Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion by Jane Ellen Harrison ( Book )
53 editions published between 1903 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,252 libraries worldwide
Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, best developed and most clearly put in the Prolegomena, have never been eclipsed.

Mythology by Jane Ellen Harrison ( Book )
18 editions published between 1924 and 1984 in English and Spanish and held by 1,038 libraries worldwide

Ancient art and ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison ( Book )
57 editions published between 1913 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,012 libraries worldwide
The point of the title 'Ancient Art and Ritual' 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. This connection has, I believe, an important bearing on questions, as, for example, the question of the place of art in our modern civilization, its relation to and its difference from religion and morality. I have taken Greek drama as a typical instance, because in it we have the clear historical case of a great art, which arose out of a very primitive and almost world-wide ritual. [author].

Themis : a study of the social origins of Greek religion by Jane Ellen Harrison ( Book )
26 editions published between 1912 and 1989 in English and held by 986 libraries worldwide

Epilegomena to the study of Greek religion, and Themis; a study of the social origins of Greek religion by Jane Ellen Harrison ( Book )
6 editions published between 1962 and 2007 in English and held by 727 libraries worldwide

Manual of mythology in relation to Greek art by Maxime Collignon ( Book )
13 editions published between 1890 and 2003 in English and held by 415 libraries worldwide

Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides by Jane Ellen Harrison ( Book )
15 editions published between 1906 and 1976 in English and held by 367 libraries worldwide

The religion of ancient Greece by Jane Ellen Harrison ( Book )
16 editions published between 1905 and 1985 in English and held by 282 libraries worldwide

Mythology & monuments of ancient Athens; being a translation of a portion of the 'Attica' of Pausanias by Pausanias ( Book )
3 editions published in 1890 in English and held by 265 libraries worldwide

Douris and the painters of Greek vases by Edmond Pottier ( Book )
3 editions published between 1909 and 1916 in English and held by 237 libraries worldwide