Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial and Myth by Walter Burkert
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Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial and Myth by Walter Burkert, published in 1983. Sections Include: Sacrifice, Hunting and Funerary Rituals, Sacrifice as an Act of Killing, The Sexualization of Ritual Killing: Maiden Sacrifice, Phallus Cult, Werewolves Around the Tripod Kettle, The Delphic Tripod, Lykaia and Lykaion, From Ox-Slaying to the Panathenaic Festival, The Lemnian Women, Anthestreia, Eleusis, Documentation and Secret, The Myth of Kore and Pig-Sacrifice, Myesis and Synthema, Overcoming Death and Encountering Death: Initiation and Sacrifice, etc. etc. Hardcover with original jacket with light shelfwear to jacket corner and ends.
