Homo Necans
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Walter Burkert author Peter Bing translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:1st Jul '92
£31.00
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Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
ISBN: 9780520058750
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
Weight: 408g
360 pages