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" Homo necans : "
by Walter Burkert ; translated by Peter Bing.
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BL
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Record Number
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946082
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b700452
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Uniform Title
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Homo necans.English
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Main Entry
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Burkert, Walter,1931-2015.
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Title & Author
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Homo necans : : the anthropology of ancient Greek sacrificial ritual and myth /\ by Walter Burkert ; translated by Peter Bing.
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Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©1983.
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Page. NO
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xxv, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0520036506
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: 0520058755
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: 9780520036505
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: 9780520058750
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Notes
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Includes indexes.
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Translation of: Homo necans.
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307).
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Contents
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Sacrifice, hunting, and funerary rituals -- Werewolves around the tripod kettle -- Dissolution and New Year's festival -- Anthesteria -- Eleusis.
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Abstract
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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.
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Subject
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Mythology, Greek.
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Rites and ceremonies-- Greece.
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Sacrifice-- Greece.
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Sacrifice.
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Mythology, Greek.
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Mythologie grecque.
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Rites et cérémonies-- Grèce.
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Sacrifice d'animaux.
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Mythology, Greek.
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Mythology, Greek.
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Religion.
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Rites and ceremonies-- Greece.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Sacrifice.
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Griekse oudheid.
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Offercultus.
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Greece, Religion.
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Greece, Religion.
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Grèce, Religion.
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Greece.
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Dewey Classification
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292/.38
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LC Classification
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BL788.B8713 1983
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NLM classification
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73.57bcl
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Added Entry
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Bing, Peter
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