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prayer preceded the immolation; a ritual cry or hymn accompanied the pouring of lustral water over the victim’s head. The gods w ...
which was used to ‘‘draw’’ someone to one. The refrain goes ‘‘Iunx, draw that man to my home.’’ Simaitha’s sorcery is a miniatur ...
O sweet message from Zeus, in what form are you arriving in lovely Thebes from Delphi, plentiful in gold? My nerves are stretche ...
CHORUS. Delight, O Phoibos, in the melodious honor of our most beautiful song! Receive the sacred prize! AGATHON. And sing the g ...
the principle ‘‘one good turn deserves another’’ applied to relations between men and gods as well as to interpersonal friendshi ...
intended, by a kind of sympathetic magic, to promote a reappearance by the goddess. It is a form of verbal flattery designed to ...
the deities thought responsible for erotic passion. As ‘‘argument’’ supporting the Chorus’s recognition of these gods as cause o ...
particular one notes the apotropaic force of prayers calledlitai: they serve to avert divine wrath following a human transgressi ...
Against Kinesias). One might think that there was an essential difference between public and private prayer (the one conspicuous ...
Cult hymns usually address the god(s) directly in the second person. Often they begin with a subsidiary invocation to the Muses ...
worship, an interesting ‘‘historical’’ narrative of how Apollo helped defeat the invad- ing marauder Brennos, and then modulatio ...
CHAPTER EIGHT Greek Normative Animal Sacrifice Jan N. Bremmer In recent decades it has been increasingly recognized that sacrifi ...
Normative Animal Sacrifice We are fortunate that sacrifices already abound in our oldest literary source, Homer (ca. 700 BC). Th ...
with the pig in particular. The exceptions, confirming the case, are Hestia (who was the customary recipient of a preliminary, u ...
heads and bellies. The sacrificers themselves also rose to the occasion. They took a bath, put on festive white clothes and, sim ...
sacrificial victim. This inaugural act separated the sacrificial participants from the rest of the population and constituted th ...
shout the cry from joy when she sees the suitors killed (22.408, 411), and in Aeschylus’Agamemnon(595) Clytaemnestra raises theo ...
pelanos, a kind of cake, which had apparently been brought along in the sacrificial basket, often shown standing next to the bur ...
The Significance of Sacrifice: The Insider’s Perspective Having seen that not every sacrifice in Greece ended with the consumpti ...
Homer (Iliad9.534–6) mentions that the Calydonian hunt was occasioned by Oeneus’ omission of Artemis from a sacrifice to all the ...
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