FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FEMININE PERSONALITY

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. PART 1.THE TEXT AND TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY, AND BACKGROUND
6. TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER 1
7. COMMENTARY ON THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER 28
8. BACKGROUND: THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES AND WOMEN'S RITES FOR DEMETER 65
9. PART 2. INTERPRETIVE ESSAY ON THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER
10. INTRODUCTION 77
11. INTERPRETING THE HYMN TO DEMETER 81
12. THE "THEOLOGY" OF THE MYSTERIES 82
13. VARIANTS OF THE MYTH AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE VERSION IN THE HYMN TO DEMETER 95
14. FEMALE EXPERIENCE IN THE HYMN TO DEMETER 101
15. MARRIAGE 102
16. GENDER CONFLICT AND THE COSMOLOGICAL TRADITION 110
17. THE MOTHER/DAUGHTER ROMANCE 116
18. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MYSTERIES 135
19. THE HYMN TO DEMETER AND THE POLIS 140
20. CHRISTIANITY AND THE HYMN TO DEMETER 148
21. THE INFLUENCE OF THE HYMN TO DEMETER AND ITS MYTH 149
22. APPENDIX 167
23. The Hymn to Demeter as a Panhellenic Poem 173
24. PART 3. FURTHER INTERPRETATION: CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES
25. WITHDRAWAL AND RETURN: AN EPIC STORY PATTERN IN THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER AND IN THE HOMERIC POEMS 179
26. SOME FUNCTIONS OF THE DEMOPHOON EPISODE IN THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER 188
27. CONCERNING THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER 196
28. POLITICS AND POMEGRANATES REVISITED 210
29. POLITICS AND POMEGRANATES: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER 212
30. FAMILY STRUCTURE AND FEMININE PERSONALITY 241
31. BIBLIOGRAPHY 264
32. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ADDENDUM 279
33. INDEX LOCORUM 281
34. GENERAL INDEX 287