The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry
| 1. Verfasser: |
Stocking, Charles H., 1980-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Umfang/Format: |
ix, 198 p. : ill. |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry. [Print] |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
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Available online (Cambridge Core) Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: the paradox of sacrifice and the politics of feasting
- Hesiod and the interpretation of Greek sacrifice
- Reevaluating the value of sacrifice: commensal politics
- The use of sacrifice: gendered politics
- Interpreting the politics of Greek sacrifice through poetics
- Anger and honorary shares: the Promethean division revisited
- The anger of Zeus in the Theogony
- Metaphors of anger and the mythic origin of sacrifice
- Why Zeus is angry: the socio-poetics of anger and distribution
- Conclusion: contested portions in poetry and practice
- Sacrifice, succession, and the politics of patriarchy
- Contest and deception, sacrifice and birth in Hesiod's Theogony
- Controlling consumption: sacrifice and Pandora
- Ending sacrifice, challenging patriarchy in the Homeric hymn to Demeter
- Conclusion: sacrifice and patriarchy in poetry and practice
- The desire of a god: semiotic sacrifice and patriarchal identity in the Homeric hymn to Hermes
- Desire, deception, and Hermes' conflicted genealogy
- Conspicuous consumption and sanctuary economics
- Hermes' semiotic sacrifice
- Sacrifice and song: the poetics of distribution
- Conclusion: Hermes' sacrificial self-fashioning
- Cities where men sacrifice: Odysseus returns to the fatherland
- Not misrecognizing Hermes
- Returning to the fatherland, returning to sacrifice
- Consumption without return: Odysseus' companions and the suitors
- Recognizing fathers and sons
- Conclusion: sacrifice, genealogy, and patriarchy in the Odyssey
- Conclusion: sacrificial narrative and the politics of the belly.
