Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth by Walter Burkert, Peter Bing

Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

Walter Burkert, Peter Bing

360 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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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 examin...

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