King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad

King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad

Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer us some of the most detailed accounts of this attempt at communication b

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Ritual and metaphor: sacrifice in the Bible 9781589836013, 9781589836020

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Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides 9781501740633

Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, t

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The Reign of King Henry VI: The exercise of royal authority, 1422–1461 [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520312920

'Anyone who wishes to study the reign of Henry VI will need to start from the basis which Professor Griffiths provi

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Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes: Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru 9781477310571

Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and s

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Forgotten Royal Women: the King and I 9781473898462, 9781473898172, 9781473898455

Behind-the-throne biographies of royal sisters, mothers, and others. It's said that behind every great man is a wo

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The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan 9780824854003

In this pioneering study of the shifting status of the emperor within court society and the relationship between the sta

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The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual 0226323005, 0226323013, 9780226323015, 9780226323008, 9780226922553

In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of

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Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike 9780804767644

After The Tale of Genji (c. 1000), the greatest work of classical Japanese literature is the historical narrative The Ta

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Royal Authority in Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty 9781407303086, 9781407333205

This study highlights and debates the evidence for the king's personal authority and power within three major spher

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