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Hades and the Pomegranate Seed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Campbell Bonner
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Abstract

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Type
Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1939

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References

1 The ancient passages bearing upon this subject, together with many modern parallels, are assembled and discussed in an excellent article by McCartney, E. S. in Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 56 (1925), 7081.Google Scholar

2 The story is discussed at some length in Zeitsckrift für Assyriologie XXVIII, 317–323. On one of the islands in Torres Straits, a young man became the husband of a girl by the act of eating food offered by her (Cambridge Anthrop. Exped. to Torres Straits, V, 224).Google Scholar