• Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (German: Homo Necans: Interpretationen Altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen)...
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  • their sexual probity from the supposed license of the Etruscans. In Homo Necans, Walter Burkert saw the October Horse as a "sacrifice of dissolution"...
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    leading to the spread of animal domestication. In a theory presented in Homo Necans, mythologist Walter Burkert suggests that the ritual sacrifice of livestock...
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  • began in 1981 when his work of ancient Greek religious anthropology, Homo Necans (1972), was published in an Italian translation, followed in 1983 by...
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    Nova fragmenta Euripidea (1968) frs.65.90-97. Burkert (Peter Bing, tr.) Homo Necans (1983) p. 149. Praxithea ("cult of the Goddess") had assented to the...
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    Historian. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0837-8. Burkert, Homo Necans 1983, p 95f. G. Devereux, "The abduction of Hippodameia as 'aiton' of...
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    The Outline. Retrieved 24 July 2020. Walter Burkert (Peter Bing, tr.) Homo Necans 1983, p. 149 gives references for this observation "Ἑρεχθεύς". Iliad...
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    self-flagellation). According to the hunting hypothesis, created by Walter Burkert in Homo Necans, carnivorous behavior is considered a form of violence. Burkett suggests...
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  • art alongside animals as support for the hypothesis. Walter Burkert in Homo Necans (1972) suggested that hunting magic rituals are significant in the origin...
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  • Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.) article Atreus. Burkert, Walter (1972). Homo Necans. pp. 103–108. Carrara, Laura; Ferri, Rolando; Medda, Enrico (2023). Il...
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    In addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name Homo sapiens (Latin: 'wise man', Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species have...
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    from the original on 2019-04-21. Retrieved 2019-04-24. Walter Burkert, Homo Necans (1972) 1983:78, with extensive bibliography, including P.J. Ucko, who...
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    Olympia". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-06-05. Burkert, Homo Necans 1983, p 95f.; Megalai Ehoiai fr. 259. G. Devereux, "The abduction of...
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    Zeus's instigation", τότ' Ἀκταῖον κτεῖναι Διὸς αἰνεσίῃσι Walter Burkert, Homo Necans (1972), translated by Peter Bing (University of California Press) 1983...
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    1 Ascherson 1884, pp. 18-19. Ovid, Metamorphoses, I.650-730 Burkert, Homo Necans (1974) 1983:164 note 14, giving bibliography. Eustathius of Thessalonica...
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    ISBN 978-0-8108-5574-8. Burkert, Walter (1983). "Pelops at Olympia". Homo Necans. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-05875-0. Coubertin, Pierre...
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    text from this source, which is in the public domain. Burkert, Walter, Homo Necans (University of California Press) 1983, III.7 "The Return of the Dolphin"...
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    temenos of Athena at Sicyon. (Pausanias, 2.11.1; 2.6.3). Walter Burkert, Homo Necans 1983:186 notes the comparison with Athena Poleis at Athens and Erechtheus...
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    American Philological Association 124 (1994:163-196) p.196 Walter Burkert, Homo Necans (1972), translated by Peter Bing (University of California Press) 1983...
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    Theophrastus, Of the winds 14, and other testimony noted in Walter Burkert, Homo Necans (1972), translated by Peter Bing ((University of California Press) 1983)...
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    for the castration of sacrificial animals, see Burkert, Walter (1983) Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Ritual and Myth, translated by Peter...
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  • ethnography", 1988:1–18. Beckwith 2009, p. 2. Beckwith 2009, p. 3. Burkert, Homo Necans (1972) 1983:83. Myth as "narratives of collective importance" is often...
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    complementary"; Greek mythology scholar Walter Burkert has observed, in Homo Necans (1972) 1983:79f, "are nonetheless, consistently similar at an earlier...
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    among the sacrificial detritus, Walter Burkert, "Lykaia and Lykaion", Homo Necans, tr. by Peter Bing (University of California) 1983, p. 90. Pausanias...
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    Intersubjectivity, and Recognition. SUNY Press. Burkert, Walter. (1983). Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Translated...
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    of death previously meted out upon a series of vanquished suitors. In Homo Necans, Walter Burkert reads in these myths a reflection of the sacrificial...
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    Hellenic Studies, xx: 115, doi:10.2307/623746, JSTOR 623746, S2CID 164148837 Burkert, Walter (1971), Homo necans The Anthesteria Bibliotheca Arcana (1997)...
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    Christology. It has been compared to the classicist Walter Burkert's Homo Necans (1972). Girard further developed its ideas in a subsequent book, Things...
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    Mythology. Infobase Publishing. p. 80. ISBN 9781438126395. Walter Burkert, Homo Necans (1972) 1983:166-67. Hesiodic Aigimios, fragment 294, reproduced in Merkelbach...
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    ISBN 1-898800-45-6. OCLC 61680895.[page needed] Thus Walter Burkert, in Homo Necans (1972) 1983:80, noting C. Koch on "Venus Victrix" in Realencyclopädie...
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