Rites of passage in ancient Greece : literature, religion, society / edited by Mark W. Padilla. - Lewisburg : London : Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses, 1999. - 312 pages ; 24 cm. - Bucknell review ; vol. 43, no. 1.

Hyllus' coming of age in Sophocles' Trachiniae/ Dora C. Pozzi -- Euripides' Hippolytus and the trials of manhood/ Robin Mitchell-Boyask -- Euripides' Ion: Generational passage and civic myth/ Charles Segal -- The violence of community: ritual in the Iphigeneia in Tauris/ Barbara Goff -- Io in the Prometheus Bound: A coming of age paradigm for the Athenian community/ Phyllis B. Katz -- Antigone's unnoticed rite of passage/ Wm. Blake Tyrrell -- Euripides' Helen and female rites of passage/ Bella Zweig -- Transvestite Dionysos/ Jan N. Bremmer -- The Choes and Anthesteria reconsidered: male maturation rites and the Peloponnesian wars/ Greta L. Ham -- Flunctuation meanings: "Passage rites" in ritual, myth, Odyssey, and the Greek romance/ Ken Dowden -- Solon on the Beach: some pragmatic functions of the Limen in initiatory myth and ritual/ David D. Leitao -- Indigenous and modern perspectives on tribal initiation rites: education according to Plato/ Claude Calame.

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