A new interpretation of sacrifice based on Greek myth and poetics in conjunction with recent research in anthropology.

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This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from

Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposef