Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society Paperback: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad - Softcover

Kitts, Margo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521174244 ISBN 13: 9780521174244

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

In this book, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East.

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“Kitts presents a detailed study of oath making in Homer's Iliad, both the ritual details and the consequences of oath breaking; in particular, she distinguishes between commensal sacrifices and those involving oaths, and she looks at instances in which deaths on the battlefield are compared to the deaths of sacrificial animals. In doing so, Kitts makes good use of comparative Near Eastern material, including Hittite, Assyrian, and biblical texts.”
Choice

"The book is fluently written and the discussion throughout is careful and detailed. There are many useful references to secondary material, and a valuable appendix of the key passages in Greek." - Fiona McHardy, Roehampton University

"Margo Kitt offers scholars a number of intriguing new views on well-known pieces of poetic material...anyone interested in studying religious rituals-actual or imagined-will profit intellectually from observing Iliadic oath sacrifices through Kitt's wide-ranging and often keen-sighted eyes."
Shubha Pathak, The Journal of Religion

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Sanctified violence homeric society pb editado por Cambridge

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521174244
• ISBN 13: 9780521174244
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258