Ritual Problems: Offering and Sacrificing

Much like many other ancient phenomena, the rituals of the Greeks continue to both vex and intrigue through their diverse particularities and their often elusive meanings. The title of the first work under review, Offrir en Grèce ancienne, reflects a misleading definitiveness in that regard: this is...

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Published in:Kernos
Main Author: Carbon, Jan-Mathieu 1980- (Author)
Contributors: Patera, Ioanna (Bibliographic antecedent) ; Naiden, F. S. 1953- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Centre [2013]
In: Kernos
Review of:Offrir en Grèce ancienne (Stuttgart : Steiner, 2012) (Carbon, Jan-Mathieu)
Smoke signals for the gods (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013) (Carbon, Jan-Mathieu)
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:Much like many other ancient phenomena, the rituals of the Greeks continue to both vex and intrigue through their diverse particularities and their often elusive meanings. The title of the first work under review, Offrir en Grèce ancienne, reflects a misleading definitiveness in that regard: this is not a comprehensive treatise on the notion of ‘offering’ in ancient Greece. Rather, it is the subtitle that should probably retain one’s attention: gestes et contextes. Herein lies one of the (und...
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Contains:Enthalten in: Kernos
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4000/kernos/2139