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Pease, Arthur Stanley (1881-1964) classicist, college president, and botanist
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Copy letter from Arthur Stanley Pease to Sir J. G. Frazer
Add. MS b/36/343 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

The University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Dated 5th May 1919 - Sends notes on the third edition of 'The Golden Bough' on a variety of topics: the name used by Odysseus in the encounter with the Cyclops; piling pebbles on tombstones in Jewish cemeteries; stoning among Greeks and Romans, serpents casting their skin, use of the rod to discover water, the ceremony of the Ceri at Gubbio, referencing H. M. Bower's work 'The Elevation and Procession of the Ceri at Gubbio'.
Typed letter from Arthur Stanley Pease to Sir J. G. Frazer
Add. MS c/59/73 · Item · 5 May 1919
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

The University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois - Sends notes on the third edition of 'The Golden Bough' on a variety of topics: the name used by Odysseus in the encounter with the Cyclops; piling pebbles on tombstones in Jewish cemeteries; stoning among Greeks and Romans, serpents casting their skin, use of the rod to discover water, the ceremony of the Ceri at Gubbio, referencing H. M. Bower's work 'The Elevation and Procession of the Ceri at Gubbio'.