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Greek and Roman animal sacrifice : ancient victims, modern observers / edited by Christopher A. Faraone and F.S. Naiden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781139336826
  • 1139336827
  • 9780511894602
  • 0511894600
  • 9781139338561
  • 1139338560
  • 1139334271
  • 9781139334273
  • 1107228786
  • 9781107228788
  • 9786613571953
  • 6613571954
  • 1139337696
  • 9781139337694
  • 1139341723
  • 9781139341721
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Greek and Roman animal sacrifice.DDC classification:
  • 292.34 23
LOC classification:
  • BL795.S25 G74 2012e
  • BL795.S25
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

First general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.

English.