Homo Necans
Douban
ISBN: 9780520058750
Autore:
Walter Burkert
Tradotto da:
Peter Bing
Casa editrice:
University of California Press
data di pubblicazione: 1986
-11
Prezzo: USD 36.95
Numero di pagine: 360
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Walter Burkert Peter Bing
Sinossi
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.
