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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 August 2017
      24 August 2017
      ISBN:
      9781139017886
      9780521191036
      9781108820202
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139017886
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 348 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Religion, Religion: General Interest
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    This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.

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