INDEX
Reading edition
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 nature, 198 —— and religion, 225 ——, emotional factor in, 26 ——, social elements in, 241-248
Ascension festival, 69
Bear, Aino festival, 92-99
Beast 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, 121-128
Dancing, a work, 30-31 ——, magical, 31-35 ——, commemorative, 44
Daphnephoros, 186
Death and winter, 67-72
Dikè as way of life, 116
Dionysis, 12, 150
Dionysis 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, 145-166
Horæ 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, 190
Kangaroos, dance of, 46
Landscape, art of, 199-201
Maeterlinck, 200
May-day at Cambridge, 57
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, 188-189
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
Tělětē, rite of growing up, 112
Theatre, 10-13, 136
Themis, as ritual custom, 117
Theoria and theory, 248
Threshing-floor at 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, 242
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