Women's Dionysian initiation; the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii
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TextSeries: (Jungian classics series: 2)Dallas, TX Spring Publications c1988Description: xvii, 147p.; illus.; bibliog. notesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-88214-510-X
- Mythology--Psychological Aspects
- Mural Painting and Decoration--Italy--Pompeii (Ancient City)
- Dionysus (Greek deity)
- Villa of the Mysteries (Pompeii)
- Pompeii (Ancient City)--Buildings, Structures, etc
- Dionysia in Art
- Mysteries, Religious, in Art
- Women--Psychology
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Jungian psychology
- Italy--Antiquities
- Initiation Rites and Ceremonies
- Ariadne (Greek mythology)
- Art and Mythology
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Trans. (of the mimeograph Psychologische Betrachtungen zu der Freskenfolge der Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii: ein Versuch, pub. in Zurich, c1957, by the Psychological Club of Zurich) by Gladys Phelan. Intro. by M. Esther Harding.
1. Entering the Villa. History of the Villa of Mysteries. The initiation chamber. The mythological hypothesis of the mystery cult: Dionysus and. Ariadne. 2. The sacred drama in the Villa of Mysteries
'...the first publication of a significant study, done at the behest of Jung, which fascinated students at the Zurich Institute in the 1950s. Rare, Pompeiian fresco art depicting an initiation ceremony for women in a series of ten exquisite scenes provides the basic material for the author's psychological analysis.'
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