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  2. Sacrificial calendar of Athens - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Human sacrifice - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Ceremonies of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    A man pours out a libation as depicted on an Attic terracotta cup. A libation is an offering involving the ritual pouring out of a liquid. In ancient Greece, such libations most commonly consisted of watered down wine, but also sometimes of pure wine, honey, olive oil, water or milk. [1]

  5. Timeline of human sacrifices - Wikipedia

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    1024: Human sacrifice by volkhvy reported in Suzdal in Russia. [24] 1066: John Scotus (bishop of Mecklenburg) was sacrificed to Radegast, the god of hospitality. [25] 1071: Human sacrifice of women by volkhvy was reported in a Rostov village in Rus. [26] 11th century: Al-Bakri mentions sacrifice of servants during royal burial in Ghana. [20]

  6. Pharmakos - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Polyxena - Wikipedia

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    The sacrifice of Polyxena by the triumphant Greeks (Attic black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora, ca. 570–550 BC)In Greek mythology, Polyxena (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ k s ɪ n ə /; Ancient Greek: Πολυξένη, romanized: Poluxénē) was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. [1]

  8. Sacrificial victims of the Minotaur - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Anemospilia - Wikipedia

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    Hughes, D.D., Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece (Routeledge, 1991) Steel, Luise, Time, Tradition, and Society in Greek Archaeology: Bridging the 'Great Divide' (ed. Nigel Spencer), first publ. Routledge 1995, ISBN 0-41511-412-8; Dickinson, Oliver, The Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-52145-664-9