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"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."
- Samuel Johnson
(1709 - 1784)
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| | Homo Necans:
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth REPRINT
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| | by Walter Burkert, Peter Bing (Translator)
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ZIN Product Number: 10139431
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Textbook Paperback, 334 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520058755
Release Date: Jan 10, 1989
| |  | | | In Brief
"Burkert addresses the problem of what he calls 'the strange prominence of animal slaughter' in the rituals of ancient societies. . . . {The author posits that} civilized life endures only when the brute force that is part of human nature is given ritual form; moreover, collective ritual killing promotes a sense of community. So the ritualization of hunting behavior allowed it to outlast primitive hunting society. . . . Most of the book consists of an application of the theory to different Greek rituals, such as those that formed apart of the Lykaia, the Panathenaia, the Agrionia, the Anthesteria, and the Eleusinian mysteries. Burkert's principal argument is that these festivals areso many elaborations of a basic threefold ritual of preparation, killing, andresuscitation." (Classical World) Bibliography. Indexes.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
"Burkert has the advantage of an incomparable knowledge of the sacrificial practices of the ancient Greeks and indeed of the entire ancient world. Boldness of theory and consummate learning are united in him as in few others.... Homo Necans is a very important book." -- Robert Parker
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Sociology, Greco-Roman Mythology, Literature - Classics / Criticism, History, Ancient - Greece
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