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375: 98:, Gilbert Murray in 1913 proclaimed the killing of the year spirit as the "orthodox view of the origins of tragedy. The year Daimon waxes proud and is slain by his enemy, who becomes thereby a murderer, and must in turn perish". A decade later, however, the excessively rigid application of Frazer's thesis to Greek tragedy had already begun to be challenged; and by the sixties 335:
The Cambridge Ritualists Reconsidered: Proceedings of the First Oldfather Conference, Held on the Campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign April 27–30, 1989
130:, who used the French sociologist's notion of collective representations to analyze social forms of religious, artistic, philosophical, and scientific expression in 224: 416: 360: 445: 440: 435: 298: 455: 409: 169: 81: 164: 465: 49: 402: 41: 179: 147: 115: 29: 460: 190: 123: 21: 386: 114:, they exerted profound influence not only on the Classics, but on literary critics, such as 131: 102:
could state that "The ritual origins of tragedy are totally in doubt, often hotly debated".
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The Myth and Ritual School: J. G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists
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Bibliography of works by and about the Myth and Ritual School
390: 76:. They are also sometimes referred to as the 410: 8: 343:(1998), anthology edited by Robert A. Segal. 417: 403: 68:, mainly the ritual seasonal killings of 56:, specifically their attempts to explain 203: 297:Calder, William M. (5 February 2001). 7: 371: 369: 287:(Princeton 1971) p. 108-9 and p. 171 389:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by 14: 346:C Kluckholn, 'Myths and Rituals' 373: 110:Through their work in classical 1: 337:, edited by W. M. Calder III 299:"Review of Robert Ackerman, 122:. Particularly affected by 20:were a recognised group of 482: 446:British literary theorists 368: 348:Harvard Theological Review 341:The Myth and Ritual Theory 307:Bryn Mawr Classical Review 82:Classical Anthropologists 244:Quoted in R Fraser ed., 170:Life-death-rebirth deity 385:-related article is a 78:myth and ritual school 441:Ancient Greek theatre 66:originating in ritual 28:, England, including 436:Culture in Cambridge 285:Anatomy of Criticism 274:(Penguin 1981) p. 18 261:(Oxford 2009) p. 651 248:(Oxford 2009) p. 651 214:(Oxford 2009) p. 651 42:University of Oxford 18:Cambridge Ritualists 456:Classical philology 232:scholarworks.iu.edu 180:Sir Michael Tippett 116:Stanley Edgar Hyman 88:Sacrifice and drama 60:and early forms of 40:(actually from the 30:Jane Ellen Harrison 22:classical scholars 398: 397: 270:R Fagles trans., 191:The White Goddess 473: 419: 412: 405: 377: 370: 323: 322: 320: 318: 313:on 6 August 2019 309:. Archived from 294: 288: 281: 275: 268: 262: 259:The Golden Bough 255: 249: 246:The Golden Bough 242: 236: 235: 229: 225:"Folklore Forum" 221: 215: 212:The Golden Bough 208: 132:classical Greece 95:The Golden Bough 481: 480: 476: 475: 474: 472: 471: 470: 426: 425: 424: 423: 366: 357: 350:35 (1942) 45-79 331: 329:Further reading 326: 316: 314: 296: 295: 291: 282: 278: 269: 265: 256: 252: 243: 239: 227: 223: 222: 218: 209: 205: 201: 196: 175:Myth and ritual 160: 108: 90: 70:eniautos daimon 62:classical drama 12: 11: 5: 479: 477: 469: 468: 463: 458: 453: 448: 443: 438: 428: 427: 422: 421: 414: 407: 399: 396: 395: 378: 364: 363: 356: 355:External links 353: 352: 351: 344: 338: 330: 327: 325: 324: 289: 276: 263: 257:R Fraser ed., 250: 237: 216: 210:R Fraser ed., 202: 200: 197: 195: 194: 187: 182: 177: 172: 167: 161: 159: 156: 128:F. M. Cornford 124:Émile Durkheim 107: 104: 89: 86: 50:George Thomson 38:Gilbert Murray 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 478: 467: 466:England stubs 464: 462: 459: 457: 454: 452: 449: 447: 444: 442: 439: 437: 434: 433: 431: 420: 415: 413: 408: 406: 401: 400: 394: 392: 388: 384: 379: 376: 372: 367: 362: 359: 358: 354: 349: 345: 342: 339: 336: 333: 332: 328: 312: 308: 304: 302: 293: 290: 286: 280: 277: 273: 267: 264: 260: 254: 251: 247: 241: 238: 233: 226: 220: 217: 213: 207: 204: 198: 193: 192: 188: 186: 183: 181: 178: 176: 173: 171: 168: 166: 165:Jessie Weston 163: 162: 157: 155: 153: 149: 145: 141: 137: 133: 129: 125: 121: 120:Northrop Frye 117: 113: 105: 103: 101: 100:Robert Fagles 97: 96: 87: 85: 83: 79: 75: 71: 67: 63: 59: 55: 51: 47: 43: 39: 35: 34:F.M. Cornford 31: 27: 23: 19: 391:expanding it 380: 365: 347: 340: 334: 317:24 September 315:. Retrieved 311:the original 306: 300: 292: 284: 279: 272:The Oresteia 271: 266: 258: 253: 245: 240: 231: 219: 211: 206: 189: 140:James Frazer 109: 93: 92:Inspired by 91: 80:, or as the 77: 69: 24:, mostly in 17: 15: 430:Categories 199:References 106:Influences 46:A. B. Cook 461:Mythology 185:Sparagmos 148:Nietzsche 112:philology 74:Year-King 72:, or the 26:Cambridge 283:N Frye, 158:See also 383:England 451:Ritual 136:Darwin 54:ritual 381:This 228:(PDF) 152:Freud 387:stub 319:2019 150:and 144:Marx 126:was 58:myth 16:The 118:or 64:as 44:), 432:: 305:. 230:. 154:. 146:, 142:, 138:, 84:. 48:, 36:, 32:, 418:e 411:t 404:v 393:. 321:. 303:" 234:.

Index

classical scholars
Cambridge
Jane Ellen Harrison
F.M. Cornford
Gilbert Murray
University of Oxford
A. B. Cook
George Thomson
ritual
myth
classical drama
originating in ritual
Year-King
Classical Anthropologists
The Golden Bough
Robert Fagles
philology
Stanley Edgar Hyman
Northrop Frye
Émile Durkheim
F. M. Cornford
classical Greece
Darwin
James Frazer
Marx
Nietzsche
Freud
Jessie Weston
Life-death-rebirth deity
Myth and ritual

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