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
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
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
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
Mends, as ritual custom, 117
Theoria and theory, 248
Threshing-floor as dancing-place, 124
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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