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The sacrificial calendar of Athens is an Ancient Greek religious document inscribed on stone as part of the Athenian law revisions from 410/9–405/4 and 403/2–400/399 BC. It provides a detailed record of sacrificial practices , listing festivals , types of offerings (both animal and non-animal), and payments to priests and officials.
Molten Wax, Spilt Wine and Mutilated Animals: Sympathetic Magic in near Eastern and Early Greek Oath Ceremonies. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 113, 60-80. doi:10.2307/632398; Mikalson, J 2009, Ancient Greek Religion, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ; Sarah, H 2009, King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad
the last human sacrifice in connection with a funeral among Yombe people occurred when nine women were buried with their dead husband. [59] Last recorded human sacrifice at Mount Tláloc in Mexico. [60] 1890: Last human sacrifice occurred in Baliy area in Sarawak. [61] 1892: French conquest suppressed human sacrifises in Dahomey. [20] 1890s:
Hughes, Dennis, Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece, London 1991, pp. 139–165. Litwa, M David, 'The Pharmakos,' chapter 11 in How the Gospels became history: Jesus and Mediterranean myths, Synkrisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019; pp.156-68. Nagy, Gregory. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry.
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice by capital punishment, an authoritative/priestly figure, spirits of dead ancestors or as a retainer sacrifice, wherein a monarch's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in ...
Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East. Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, v. 8. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-16473-4. Gardner, Percy; Jevons, Frank Byron, A Manual of Greek Antiquities, University of Wisconsin, 1895, Charles Scribner's Sons. Parker, Robert, Polytheism and Society at Athens, Oxford University Press, 2005.
In Greek mythology, the people of Athens were at one point compelled by King Minos of Crete to choose fourteen young noble citizens (seven young men and seven young women) to be offered as sacrificial victims to the half-human, half-taurine monster Minotaur to be killed in retribution for the death of Minos' son Androgeos.
Ancient Greek funerary practices are attested widely in literature, the archaeological record, and in ancient Greek art. Finds associated with burials are an important source for ancient Greek culture , though Greek funerals are not as well documented as those of the ancient Romans .