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 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 Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London