The Festival Called Boegia at Didyma
Author : Joseph Eddy Fontenrose
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Didyma (Extinct city)
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Author : Joseph Eddy Fontenrose
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Didyma (Extinct city)
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Author : Joseph Fontenrose
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Didyma (Extinct city)
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Author : Joseph Fontenrose
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 1944
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Author : Joseph Eddy Fontenrose
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Festivals
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Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226143538
For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods—and ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the "other"—werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other "monsters." The study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors—all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris—apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria; the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
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Author : Joseph Eddy Fontenrose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520058453
Author : Arthur Ernest Gordon
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Athens (Greece)
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Author : Edwin M. Yamauchi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2003-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1592442307
Every student of the letters of Paul, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation will find much of value in 'New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor',Ó writes W. Ward Gasque. The author investigates the status of the archaeological information which we now have about key cities of western Asia Minor during the early Roman EmpireÓ: Assos, Pergamum, Thyateira, Smyrna, Sardis, Philadelphia, Ephesus, Miletus, Didyma, Laodicea, Hierapolis, and Colossae.
Author : Thomas Day Seymour
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Classical literature
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