Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks (Detienne - paperback)

Author: Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant

Translator: Paula Wissing

File under: Detienne

ISBN: 9780226143538

Binding: paperback

Section: History

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors — all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris — apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics, ranging from the Promethean myth to the remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.