Detienne, Marcel

The cuisine of sacrifice among the Greeks / Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant ; with essays by Jean-Louis Durand [and others] ; translated by Paula Wissing. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989. - vii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Translation of: La cuisine du sacrifice en pays grec.

Includes bibliographical references.

Culinary practices and the spirit of sacrifice/ At man's table: Hesiod's foundation myth of sacrifice / Greek animals: toward a topology of edible bodies / Ritual as instrumentality / The violence of wellborn ladies: women in the Thesmophoria / The feast of the wolves, or the impossible city / Food in the countries of the sun / Self-cooking beef and the drinks of Ares / Sanctified slaughter in modern Greece: The "Kourbania" of the saints / A bibliography of Greek sacrifice / Marcel Detienne -- Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Jean-Louis Durand -- Jean-Louis Durand -- Marcel Detienne -- Marcel Detienne and Jesper Svenbro -- Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Francois Hartog -- Stella Georgourdi -- Jesper Svenbro.

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Sacred meals--Greece
Sacrifice--Greece
Cults--Greece


Greece--Religious life and customs

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