from Part II - Beliefs and Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2025
The personal rather than the social or civic side of sacrifice appears throughout the evidence for this important rite. For all their many biases, Greek sources do not share any general bias in favor of personal as opposed to communal sacrifice; nor do they not share a bias in favor of animal as opposed to vegetal sacrifice, as ample epigraphic, unproblematic evidence demonstrates. This chapter also notices problematic examples found in Homer, Old and New Comedy, and tragedy, and ends with a contrast between Greek and Hebrew evidence for personal sacrifice, the Hebrew evidence being the place of origin for this scholarly subject.
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