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The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry

Title: The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry [electronic resource] / Charles H. Stocking, University of Western Ontario.
Author: Stocking, Charles H., 1980-
Publication: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations.

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Politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry (Online)

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Politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry (Online)

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Contents

Introduction: the paradox of sacrifice and the politics of feasting -- Hesiod and the interpretation of Greek sacrifice -- Reevaluating the value of sacrifice: commensal politics -- The use of sacrifice: gendered politics -- Interpreting the politics of Greek sacrifice through poetics -- Anger and honorary shares: the Promethean division revisited -- The anger of Zeus in the Theogony -- Metaphors of anger and the mythic origin of sacrifice -- Why Zeus is angry: the socio-poetics of anger and distribution -- Conclusion: contested portions in poetry and practice -- Sacrifice, succession, and the politics of patriarchy -- Contest and deception, sacrifice and birth in Hesiod's Theogony -- Controlling consumption: sacrifice and Pandora -- Ending sacrifice, challenging patriarchy in the Homeric hymn to Demeter -- Conclusion: sacrifice and patriarchy in poetry and practice -- The desire of a god: semiotic sacrifice and patriarchal identity in the Homeric hymn to Hermes -- Desire, deception, and Hermes' conflicted genealogy -- Conspicuous consumption and sanctuary economics -- Hermes' semiotic sacrifice -- Sacrifice and song: the poetics of distribution -- Conclusion: Hermes' sacrificial self-fashioning -- Cities where men sacrifice: Odysseus returns to the fatherland -- Not misrecognizing Hermes -- Returning to the fatherland, returning to sacrifice -- Consumption without return: Odysseus' companions and the suitors -- Recognizing fathers and sons -- Conclusion: sacrifice, genealogy, and patriarchy in the Odyssey -- Conclusion: sacrificial narrative and the politics of the belly.

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