Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Bibliographic Collection:
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Burkert, Walter
Year of Publication: 1983
Number of Pages: 334
Publisher: University of California Press
City: Berkeley
Publication Language: engger
ISBN Number: 0520058750
Keywords: Greece, Greece Religion., Greek, Mythology, Rites and ceremonies, Sacrifice
Abstract:
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
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