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Title Greek and Roman animal sacrifice : ancient victims, modern observers / edited by Christopher A. Faraone and F.S. Naiden
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part I. Modern historiography -- From Bergaigne to Meuli : how animal sacrifice became a hot topic / Bruce Lincoln -- One generation after Burkert and Girard : where are the great theories? / Fritz Graf -- Part II. Greek and Roman practice -- Blessèd are the parasites / F.S. Naiden ; Roman animal sacrifice and the system of being / John Scheid -- Part III. Visual representations -- Sacrificing stones : on some sculpture, mostly Athenian / Richard Neer -- Sacrifice in late Roman art / Jaś Elsner -- Part IV. Literary representations -- Animal sacrifice in comedy : an alternative point of view / James Redfield -- Animal sacrifice in Greek tragedy : ritual, metaphor, problematizations / Albert Henrichs -- Afterword / Clifford Ando
Summary First general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne
Notes Proceedings of a conference, "The Centrality of Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Religion: Ancient Reality or Modern Construct?", held April 2008 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Animal sacrifice -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Animal sacrifice -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Divination -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Divination -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
Animal sacrifice
Divination
SUBJECT Greece -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses
Rome -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses
Subject Greece
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Faraone, Christopher A.
Naiden, F. S.
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