Beschreibung:
A new interpretation of sacrifice based on Greek myth and poetics in conjunction with recent research in anthropology.
Introduction: the paradox of sacrifice and the politics of feasting; 1. Anger and honorary shares: the Promethean division revisited; 2. Sacrifice, succession, and the politics of patriarchy; 3. The desire of a God: semiotic sacrifice and patriarchal identity in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes; 4. Cities where men sacrifice: Odysseus returns to the fatherland; Conclusion: sacrificial narrative and the politics of the belly.