Animal Sacrifice in Ancient World. Proceedings of the Second and Third Workshops on Sacrifice

Opis

Animal Sacrifice in Ancient World. Proceedings of the Second and Third Workshops on Sacrifice. This second volume of the proceedings is a collection of papers on the subject of sacrifice in the ancient world.

It shifts the attention from Ancient Greek sacrifices (that was the topic in the first volume) to those in the whole of Antiquity. Such a perspective seems justified especially taking into account the fact that the sacrificial ritual is a common feature of ancient cultures, and studying it in such a broad, interdisciplinary approach brings us closer to understanding the essence of this phenomenon.

We hope that this endeavor of investigating this common anthropological aspect of cultur