Homo Necans - The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

Walter Burkert

University of California Press

1986

360 páginas

12h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780520058750

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.