Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world

Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Umfang/Format: 348 pages : illustrations.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world. [Print]
Online Zugang: Online available (Cambridge Core)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 Klöckner
  • 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.