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Greek Mythology and Religion

Homo Necans

The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

by Walter Burkert · Peter Bing (trans.)

Burkert's influential study, first published in German in 1972, traces Greek sacrificial ritual back to the hunting societies of prehistory. He reads sacrifice as a ritual that dramatises killing and the guilt surrounding it, and applies this model to festivals, myths and mystery cults. Much debated, it remains a landmark in the study of Greek religion.

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