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Top 9 Jane Ellen Harrison Quotes (2026 Update)

Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “A heroic society is almost a contradiction in terms.”

1. “A heroic society is almost a contradiction in terms.”

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Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “An agon, or contest, or wrangling, there will probably be, because Summer contends with Winter, Life with Death, the New Year with the Old. A tragedy must be tragic, must have its pathos, because the Winter, the Old Year, must die.”

2. “An agon, or contest, or wrangling, there will probably be, because Summer contends with Winter, Life with Death, the New Year with the Old. A tragedy must be tragic, must have its pathos, because the Winter, the Old Year, must die.”

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch.”

3. “Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch.”

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.”

4. “Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.”

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Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “We know from tradition that in Athens ritual became art, a dromenon became the drama, and we have seen that the shift is symbolized and expressed by the addition of the theatre, or spectator-place, to the orchestra, or dancing-place.”

5. “We know from tradition that in Athens ritual became art, a dromenon became the drama, and we have seen that the shift is symbolized and expressed by the addition of the theatre, or spectator-place, to the orchestra, or dancing-place.”

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “When we say art is unpractical, we mean that art is cut loose from immediate action.”

6. “When we say art is unpractical, we mean that art is cut loose from immediate action.”

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.”

7. “To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.”

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “We seem to have come to a sort of impasse, the spirit of the dromenon is dead or dying, the spectators will not stay long to watch a doing doomed to monotony.”

8. “We seem to have come to a sort of impasse, the spirit of the dromenon is dead or dying, the spectators will not stay long to watch a doing doomed to monotony.”

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison Quote: “There was an odd rule throughout the College that no girl might buy a book.”

9. “There was an odd rule throughout the College that no girl might buy a book.”

— Jane Ellen Harrison

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