120 The passages of ancient authors which refer to the Anthesteria are collected by Professor Martin P. Nilsson, _Studia de Dionysiis Atticis_ (Lund, 1900), pp. 148 _sqq._ As to the festival, which has been much discussed of late years, see August Mommsen, _Heortologie_ (Leipsic, 1864), pp. 345 _sqq._; _id._, _Feste der Stadt Athen im Altertum_ (Leipsic, 1898), pp. 384 _sqq._; G. F. Schoemann, _Griechische Alterthümer_4 (Berlin, 1902), ii. 516 _sqq._; E. Rohde, _Psyche_3 (Tübingen and Leipsic, 1903), i. 236 _sqq._; Martin P. Nilsson, _op. cit._ pp. 115 _sqq._; P. Foucart, _Le Culte de Dionysos en Attique_ (Paris, 1904), pp. 107 _sqq._; Miss J. E. Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_2 (Cambridge, 1908), pp. 32 _sqq._; L. R. Farnell, _The Cults of the Greek States_, v. (Oxford, 1909) pp. 214 _sqq._ As to the marriage of Dionysus to the Queen of Athens, see _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, i. 136 _sq._ 121 By Professor U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, _Aristoteles und Athen_ (Berlin, 1893), ii. 42; and afterwards by Miss J. E. Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_,2 p. 536. _ 122 The Dying God_, p. 71. 123 Plutarch, _Conjugalia Praecepta_, 42. 124 Miss J. E. Harrison, _Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens_ (London, 1890), pp. 166 _sq._ 125 Aristotle, _Constitution of Athens_, 3. As to the situation of the Prytaneum see my note on Pausanias, i. 18. 3 (vol. ii. p. 172). M24 Theory that the rites of the Anthesteria comprised a drama of the violent death and resurrection of Dionysus. 126 August Mommsen, _Heortologie_, pp. 371 _sqq._; _id._, _Feste der Stadt Athen im Altertum_, pp. 398 _sqq._; P. Foucart, _Le Culte de Dionysos en Attique_, pp. 138 _sqq._ 127 Demosthenes, _Contra Neaer_. 73, pp. 1369 _sq._; Julius Pollux, viii. 108; _Etymologicum Magnum_, p. 227, _s.v._ γεραῖραι; Hesychius, _s.v._ γεραραί. 128 Chr. A. Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, p. 505. 129 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 18, 42. 130 The resurrection of Osiris is not described by Plutarch in his treatise _Isis et Osiris_, which is still our principal source for the myth of the god; but it is fortunately recorded in native Egyptian writings. See _Adonis, Attis, Osiris_, Second Edition, p. 274. P. Foucart supposes that the resurrection of Dionysus was enacted at the Anthesteria; August Mommsen prefers to suppose that it was enacted in the following month at the Lesser Mysteries. M25 Legends of human sacrifice in the worship of Dionysus may be mere misinterpretations of ritual. 131 Aelian, _De Natura Animalium_, xii. 34. Compare W. Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_2 (London, 1894), pp. 300 _sqq._ 132 Aulus Gellius, v. 12. 12. 133 See _The Dying God_, p. 166 note 1, and below, p. 249.