Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hitch, Sarah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108215442
• Artikelnr.: 49040989

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Sarah Hitch and Ian Rutherford; Part I. Victims: 1. Bare
bones: zooarchaeology and Greek sacrifice Gunnel Ekroth; 2. Venison for
Artemis? The problem of deer sacrifice Jennifer Larson; 3. Don't kill the
goose that lays the golden egg? Some thoughts on bird sacrifices in ancient
Greece Alexandra Villing; Part II. Procedure: 4. Sacrifice and purification
in the Greek world Stella Georgoudi; 5. 'Polis religion' and sacrificial
regulation Fred Naiden; 6. Meaty perks: epichoric and topological trends
Mathieu Carbon; Part III. Representation: 7. Sacrifice and the Homeric hymn
to Hermes 112-41 Oliver Thomas; 8.. Visualising veneration? Images of
sacrifice on Greek votive reliefs Anja Kloeckner; 9. Sacrifice in drama:
the flow of liquids Richard Seaford; Part IV. Margins: 10. Animal sacrifice
in Hittite Anatolia Alice Mouton; 11. The reception of Egyptian animal
sacrifice in Greek writers: ethnic stereotyping or transcultural discourse?
Ian Rutherford; 12. A quiet slaughter? Julian and the etiquette of public
sacrifice Sergio Knipe.