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Smoke Signals for the Gods - Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods (Paperback)
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Smoke Signals for the Gods - Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods (Paperback)
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Animal sacrifice has been critical to the study of ancient
Mediterranean religions since the nineteenth century. Recently, two
theories have dominated the subject of sacrifice: the psychological
and ethological approach of Walter Burkert and the sociological and
cultural approach of Jean-Pierre Vernant and Marcel Detienne. These
writers have argued that sacrifice allays feelings of guilt at the
slaughter of sacrificial animals and that it promotes solidarity.
None of them leaves much room for the role of priests or gods, or
compares animal sacrifice to other oblations offered to the gods.
F. S. Naiden redresses the omission of these features to show that,
far from being an attempt to assuage guilt or foster solidarity,
animal sacrifice is an attempt to make contact with a divine being,
and that it is so important-and perceived to be so risky-for the
worshippers that it becomes subject to regulations of unequaled
extent and complexity. Smoke Signals for the Gods addresses these
regulations as well as literary texts, while drawing on recent
archaeological work on faunal remains. It also seeks to explain how
mistaken views of sacrifice arose, and traces them as far back as
early Christianity. This many-sided study provides a new picture of
ancient Greek animal sacrifice and of the religion of which
sacrifice was a part.
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