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Smoke signals for the gods : ancient Greek sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman periods /

Animal sacrifice has been critical to the study of ancient Mediterranean religions since the eighteenth century. More recently, two leading views on sacrifice have dominated the subject: the psychological approach of Walter Burkert and the sociological one by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Marcel Detienne....

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Naiden, F. S.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Table des matières:
  • Invention of a ritual
  • Venues and offerings
  • Prayers and answers
  • God says no
  • Rules, rewards, and experts
  • Markets and messes
  • Detective story
  • Demise of a ritual.