num_pages: 370
description: Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
language: English
title: Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
titlecomplete: Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
genres: History, Classics, Mythology, Anthropology, Greece, Philosophy, Religion, Classical Studies, Ancient History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 144
awards: name: Richard M. Weaver Award
category: Scholarly Letters
publisher: University of California Press