The Seba library treats Anagnorisis in 9 passages, across 4 authors (including Harrison, Jane Ellen, Hollis, James, Martha C. Nussbaum).
An Anagnorisis—discovery or recognition—of the slain and mutilated Daimon, followed by his Resurrection
Harrison identifies anagnorisis as the fifth structural element in the ritual Eniautos sequence, specifically the recognition of the dismembered Year-Daimon as the precondition of resurrection, rooting the term in pre-dramatic religious performance.
, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, 1912thesis
We have the whole sequence: Agon, Pathos and Messenger, Threnos, Anagnorisis and Peripeteia, and Epiphany. The daimon is fought against, torn to pieces, announced as dead, wept for, collected and recognized, and revealed in his new divine life.
Harrison demonstrates through the Bacchae that anagnorisis and peripeteia are inseparable nodes in the ritual-dramatic sequence, the recognition of the fragmented daimon being structurally necessary before his epiphanic rebirth.
, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, 1912thesis
With anagnorisis, or recognition, the protagonist sees the world of choice from a wider frame of reference and then can finally make new choices.
Hollis translates anagnorisis into a depth-psychological therapeutic concept, identifying it as the consciousness-expanding recognition that breaks the transgenerational chain of hamartia and opens genuine agency.
, Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path, 2001thesis
They can provide the basis for a more ethically sensitive account of Aristotle's notions of peripeteia and anagnorisis, reversal and recognition, showing us why these notions are of such central importance in Aristotle's estimation of tragedies.
Nussbaum argues that anagnorisis and peripeteia are ethically central to Aristotle's Poetics because they dramatize the real gap between moral intention and lived goodness, making tragedy a vehicle for genuine moral learning.
, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, 1986thesis
Agon (short but involving Anagnorisis and Peripeteia) between Oedipus and the Herdsman 1123–1185
Harrison maps the ritual sequence onto Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, locating a compressed anagnorisis-peripeteia unit within the Agon between Oedipus and the Herdsman, illustrating how Sophocles dissolves rigid ritual form into dramatic intensity.
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Aristotle in dealing with anagnorisis speaks of 'the lance which the earth-born bear.'
Harrison cites Aristotle's own example of anagnorisis — the lance-mark of the Spartoi — to link the Aristotelian category to the deeper mythological substrate of earth-born identity and bodily signs of origin.
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Anagnorisis 342, 343, 344, 345, 435
The index entry confirms anagnorisis as a major, multiply-referenced concept throughout Harrison's Themis, marking the breadth of its application across ritual, dramatic, and mythological analyses.
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Choephori: as in other Orestes-plays we have a Threnos and Anagnorisis quite early 165–244
Harrison traces the ritual anagnorisis in Aeschylus's Choephori, showing how the recognition scene appears early in the drama, preserving its structural position relative to the Threnos and subsequent Agon.
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self, in an ultimate recognition of its own identity whereby, as Hegel says in his concluding section, it can be 'at home with itself in its otherness'
Abrams describes Hegel's Phenomenology as structured around an ultimate self-recognition — a secular anagnorisis of Spirit — placing the concept within Romantic and idealist narrative of consciousness returning to itself through alienation.
, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature, 1971aside