Chapter V. Transition From Ritual To Art : p. 119 CHAPTER V TRANSITION FROM RITUAL TO ART: THE DROMENON ("THING DONE") AND THE DRAMA PROBABLY most people when they go to a Greek play for the first time think it a strange performance. According, perhaps, more to their temperament than to their training, they are either very much excited...
Chapter Ii. Primitive Ritual. Pantomimic Dances : p. 29 CHAPTER II PRIMITIVE RITUAL: PANTOMIMIC DANCES IN books and hymns of bygone days, which dealt with the religion of "the heathen in his blindness," he was pictured as a being of strange perversity, apt to bow down to "gods of wood and stone." The question "why" he acted thus foolishly w...
Untitled : p. 255 INDEX ABSTRACTION, 224 Adonis, rites of, 19, 20, 54-56 , gardens of, 149 , as tree spirit, 149 schylus, 47 Aesthete, not artist, 214-215 Agon, 15 Anagnorisis, or recognition, 15 Anthesteria, spring festival of, 147-149 Apollo Belvedere, 171 Aristotle on art, 198 Art and beauty, 213...
Chapter Vi. Greek Sculpture : p. 170 CHAPTER VI GREEK SCULPTURE: THE PANATHENAIC FRIEZE AND THE APOLLO BELVEDERE IN passing from the drama to Sculpture we make a great leap. We pass from the living thing, the dance or the play acted by real people, the thing "done", whether as ritual or art, whether "dromenon" or "drama"...
Prefatory Note : p. 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...
Bibliography : p. 253 BIBLIOGRAPHY Fox Ancient and Primitive Ritual the best general book of reference is: FRAZER, J. G. "The Golden Bough", 3rd edition, 1911, from which most of the instances in the present manual are taken. Part IV of "The Golden Bough", "i. e." the section dealing with "Adonis, Attis...
Title Page : p. i ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL THE HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE p. ii Editors of THE HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE RT. HON. H. A. L. FISHER, F.R.S., LL.D., D.LITT. PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, F.B.A., LL.D., D.LITT. PROF. JULIAN S. HUXLEY, M.A. "For list of volumes...
Chapter Iii. Seasonal Rites. The Spring Festival : p. 49 CHAPTER III SEASONAL RITES: THE SPRING FESTIVAL WE have seen in the last chapter that whatever interests primitive man, whatever makes him feel strongly, he tends to re-enact. Any one of his manifold occupations, hunting, fighting, later ploughing and sowing, provided it be of sufficient...
Chapter Iv. The Spring Festival In Greece : p. 75 CHAPTER IV THE SPRING FESTIVAL IN GREECE THE tragedies of schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were performed at Athens at a festival known as the Great Dionysia. This took place early in April, so that the time itself makes us suspect that its ceremonies were connected with the spring. But we...
Chapter I. Art And Ritual : p. 9 ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL CHAPTER I ART AND RITUAL THE title of this book may strike the reader as strange and even dissonant. What have art and ritual to do together? The ritualist is, to the modern mind, a man concerned perhaps unduly with fixed forms and ceremonies, with carrying out...
Chapter Vii. Ritual, Art And Life : p. 204 CHAPTER VII RITUAL, ART AND LIFE IN the preceding chapters we have seen ritual emerge from the practical doings of life. We have noted that in ritual we have the beginning of a detachment from practical ends; we have watched the merely emotional dance develop from an undifferentiated chorus...
