Anıcient Art and Rituel

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  The title of this book may strike the reader as strange and even dissonant. What have art and ritual to
  do together? The ritualist is, to the modern mind, a man concerned perhaps unduly with fixed forms
  and ceremonies, with carrying out the rigidly prescribed ordinances of a church or sect. The artist,
  on the other hand, we think of as free in thought and untrammelled by convention in practice; his
  tendency is towards licence. Art and ritual, it is quite true, have diverged to-day; but the title of this
  book is chosen advisedly. Its object is to show that these two divergent developments have a
  common root, and that neither can be understood without the other. It is at the outset one and the
  same impulse that sends a man to church and to the theatre.
  Such a statement may sound to-day paradoxical, even irreverent. But to the Greek of the sixth, fifth,
  and even fourth century B.C., it would have been a simple truism. We shall see this best by
  following an Athenian to his theatre, on the day of the great Spring Festival of Dionysos.