The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry

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The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and PoetryThis book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey in conjunction with evidence from material culture, it demonstrates how sacrifice narratives in early Greek hexameter poetry are intimately connected to a mythic poetic discourse referred to as the 'politics of the belly'. This mythic poetic

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in Modern Greek

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2010) and Classical Athens & the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy (CUP

With Black and White illustrations and Maps throughout

This edition considers the historical text from a literary and historiographical perspective: the Commentary contains a detailed analysis of Livy's narrative style and structure

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It has been a particular concern to relate features of Book IV to the other books of the Fasti and to Ovid's other elegiac works

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and adds as a supplement ancient testimony concerning his lost writings dealing with the soul

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