Title Homo necans : the anthropology of ancient Greek sacrificial ritual and myth / by Walter Burkert ; translated by Peter Bing.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1983]
	©1983

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	BL788 .B8713 1983	Available	---

Description	xxv, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note	Translation of: Homo necans.
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 301-307.
Note	Includes indexes.
Contents	Sacrifice, hunting, and funerary rituals -- Werewolves around the tripod kettle -- Dissolution and New Year's festival -- Anthesteria -- Eleusis.
Subject	Rites and ceremonies -- Greece.
	Rites and ceremonies.
	Greece.
	Sacrifice -- Greece.
	Sacrifice.
	Mythology, Greek.
	Mythology, Greek.
	Greece -- Religion.
	Religion.
Indexed Term	Ancient Greek religion Sacrifices - Anthropological perspectives
Subject	Rites et cérémonies -- Grèce.
	Sacrifice d'animaux.
	Mythologie grecque.
	Grèce -- Religion.
	Offercultus.
	Griekse oudheid.
Added Title	Homo necans. English
ISBN	0520036506
	9780520036505