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Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world / edited by Sarah Hitch, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Ian Rutherford, University of Reading.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hitch, Sarah, editor.
Rutherford, Ian, 1959- editor.
Cambridge University Press.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Animal sacrifice--Greece--History.
Animal sacrifice.
Ritual--Greece--History.
Ritual.
Social archaeology.
Animal remains (Archaeology).
History.
Greece--Religious life and customs.
Greece.
Animal remains (Archaeology)--Greece.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece.
Excavations (Archaeology).
Greece--Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Social archaeology--Greece.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 340 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction / Ian Rutherford and Sarah Hitch
Part I. Victims
Bare Bones : Zooarchaeology and Greek Sacrifice / Gunnel Ekroth
Venison for Artemis? : The Problem of Deer Sacrifice / Jennifer Larson
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg? : Some thoughts on bird sacrifices in ancient Greece / Alexandra Villing
Part II. Procedure
Reflections on Sacrifice and Purification in the Greek World / Stella Georgoudi
"Polis Religion" and Sacrificial Regulation / Fred Naiden
Meaty Perks : Epichoric and Topological Trends / Mathieu Carbon
Part III. Representation
Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41 / Oliver Thomas
Visualising Veneration : Images of Animal Sacrifice on Greek Votive Reliefs / Anja Klockner
Sacrifice in Drama : The Flow of Liquids / Richard Seaford
Part IV. Margins
Animal Sacrifice in Hittite Anatolia / Alice Mouton
The Reception of Egyptian Animal Sacrifice in Greek Writers / Ian Rutherford
A Quiet Slaughter? : Julian and the Etiquette of Public Sacrifice / Sergio Knipe.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781139017886
1139017888
Publisher Number:
40027488270
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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