The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry /

The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry /

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Author / Creator:	Stocking, Charles H., 1980- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	x, 198 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Hesiod. -- Theogony. Homer. -- Odyssey. Homeric hymns. Homeric hymns. Odyssey (Homer) Theogony (Hesiod) Greek literature -- History and criticism. Sacrifice in literature. Sacrifice -- Greece. Greek literature. Sacrifice. Sacrifice in literature. Greece. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11045899

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ISBN:	9781107164260 1107164265
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the 'Theogony', the Homeric 'Hymn to Demeter', the Homeric 'Hymn to Hermes', and the 'Odyssey' in conjunction with evidence from material culture, it demonstrates how sacrifice narratives in early Greek hexameter poetry are intimately connected to a mythic-poetic discourse referred to as the "politics of the belly". This mythic-poetic discourse presents sacrifice as a site of symbolic conflict between the male stomach and female womb for both mortals and immortals. Ultimately, the book argues that the ritual of sacrifice operates as a cultural mechanism for the perpetuation of patriarchal ideology not just in early Greek hexameter, but throughout Greek cultural history.

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Call Number:	PA3015.R4 S76 2017
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