Jane Ellen Harrison 
The Religion of Ancient Greece (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This brief study is a
historia in the Greek sense of the word—an inquiry into the nature of Greek religion; an attempt to see how it started and then developed; how it resembles and differs from other religions. It asks, and does its best to answer the question, “What in Greek religion is characteristically Greek?”

About the author

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928) was an English authority on ancient Greek religion, a linguist, and feminist. One of the first female students at University of Cambridge, she went on to teach classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. A friend of Walter Pater, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Clive Bell—Harrison became one of the Bloomsbury group members. She is best known for her works
Prolegomena to the
History of Greek Religion (1903)
; Themis (1912)
; and
Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1921).