Author: Calder III, William M. (ed.).
Title: The Cambridge ritualists reconsidered. Proceedings of the First Oldfather Conference, held on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 27-30, 1989.
Description: Atlanta, Scholars Press, [1991]. IX,[2],295 pp. Softcover. - Annot. in ink in the half-title. (Illinois classical studies.Supplement 2; Illinois studies in the history of classical scholarship, Vol. 1). Rather rare. - - The Cambridge Ritualists were a recognised group of classical scholars, mostly in Cambridge, England, including Jane Ellen Harrison, F.M. Cornford, Gilbert Murray (actually from the University of Oxford), A. B. Cook, and others. They earned this title because of their shared interest in ritual, specifically their attempts to explain myth and early forms of classical drama as originating in ritual, mainly the ritual seasonal killings of eniautos daimon, or the Year-King.They are also sometimes referred to as the myth and ritual school, or as the Classical Anthropologists.

Keywords: Classical Philology Mythology Klassieke filologie Mythologie, Sagen & Sprookjes