Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Book Details
Author(s)
Walter Burkert
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN / ASIN
0520058755
ISBN-13
9780520058750
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#822,342
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Paperback
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Description
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.
