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INDEX

ABSTRACTION, 224

Adonis, rites of, 19, 20, 54-56

------, gardens of, 149

------, as tree spirit, 149 Æschylus, 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

------, and imitation, 230

------, and morality, 215

------, and religion, 225

------, emotional factor in, 26

------, social elements in, 241-248

Ascension festival, 69

 

Bear, Aino festival, 92-99

Boast dances, 45, 46

Beauty and art, 211

Bergson on art, 134

Birth, rites of new, 104-113

Bouphonia, 91-92

Bull-driving in spring, 85

------, festival at Magnesia, 87

 

Cat's-cradle, as magical charm, 66

Censor, function of, 216

Charila, spring festival, 80

Chorus in Greek drama, 121-123

 

Dancing, a work, 30-31

------, magical, 31-35

------, commemorative, 44

Daphnephoros, 186

Death and winter, 67-72

Dikè as way of life, 116

Dionysia, 12, 150

Dionysos as Holy Child, 103

------, as tree god, 102

------, as young man, 113-115

Dithyramb, 75-89

Drama and Dromenon, 35-38

 

Easter, in Modern Greece, 73

Eiresione, 114

Epheboi, Athenian, 12

Euchè, meaning of, 25

Expressionists, 232

 

Futurists, 232

 

Ghosts as fertilizers, 149

 

Homer, influence on drama, 115-166

Horse or seasons, 116

 

Idol and ideal, 227

Impressionism, 231

Imitation, 21-23

------, ceremonies in Australia, 64

Individualism, 241

Initiation ceremonies, 64, 106-113

 

Jack-in-the-Green, 60, 187, 150

 

Kangaroos, dance of, 46

 

Landscape, art of, 199-201

 

Maeterlinck, 200

May-day at Cambridge, 67

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May, queen of the, 57-61

------, king of the, 193

Mime, meaning of, 47

Mimesis, 43-47

Music, function of, 233

 

New birth, 106-113

 

Olympian gods, 202

Orchestra, meaning of, 123-127

Osiris, rites of, 15-23, 51

Ox-hunger, 81

 

Panathenaia, 178

Panspermia, 148

Parthenon frieze, 176

Peisistratos, 146

Peplos of Athena, 180

Pericles on religion, 178

Personification and conception, 70-73

Plato on art, 21-23

Pleasure not joy, 213

Post-impressionists, 238

Prayer discs, 24

Presentation, meaning of, 53

Psychical distance, 129-134

 

Representation, 34-41

Resurrection, rites of, 100

Rites, periodicity of, 52

Ritual forms in drama, 138-139

 

Santayana on art, 220

Semelè, bringing up of, 81

Spring song at Saffron Walden, 59

------, at Athens, 77

Stage or scene, 142-145

Summer, bringing in of, 67-71

 

Tammuz, rites of, 18-20

Tĕlĕtē, rite of growing up, 112

Theatre, 10-13, 136

Mends, as ritual custom, 117

Theoria and theory, 248

Threshing-floor as dancing-place, 124

Tolstoy on art, 132, 238-241

Totemism and beast dances, 46, 47

Tragedy, ritual forms in, 119-122

------, origin of, 76

Tug of war, among Esquimaux, 62

 

Unanimism, 249-252

 

Vegetation spirit, 72

 

Winter, carrying out of, 68-72

Wool, sacred, 12

World-soul, 246

Wreaths, festival of, 189

------, at Greek weddings, 190

 

Zola on art, 212

 

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