Homo Necans
Douban
ISBN: 9780520058750
author:
Walter Burkert
translator:
Peter Bing
publishing house: University of California Press
publication date: 1986
-11
binding: Paperback
price: USD 36.95
number of pages: 360
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Walter Burkert translator: Peter Bing
overview
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.
