The Cuisine Of Sacrifice Among The Greeks

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing civil 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.

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• Authors: Detienne, Marcel Detienne, Marcel (Johns Hopkins University) Detienne, Detienne Marcel, Jean-Pierre Vermant, Jean Pierre Vernant, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Vernant Jean-Pierre
• Assisted by: P. Wissing (Translation), Paula Wissing (Translation), Wissing Paula (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1989
• EAN: 9780226143538
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14353-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Sociology, European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Ancient, Greece, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Ancient religions & mythologies, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, Ancient religions and Mythologies