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Sacrificial Imagery

Sacrificial Imagery is a literary and symbolic construct in Greek tragedy that represents the ritualized offering of a character or entity to divine or communal forces, distinguished by its invocation of religious sacrifice to articulate moral, social, or political crises within the dramatic narrative.

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Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

William Hansen, Walter Burkert · The Classical World · 1985 · 596 citations

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The Motif of the Corrupted Sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia

Froma I. Zeitlin · Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association · 1965 · 262 citations

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Cult and Sculpture: Sacrifice in the Ara Pacis Augustae

John Elsner · The Journal of Roman Studies · 1991 · 157 citations

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Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides

Deborah Roberts, Helene P. Foley · The Classical World · 1986 · 134 citations

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Saving shame: martyrs, saints, and other abject subjects

Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 82 citations

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Authors

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  1. MR
    Michael Roberts

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 48 citations

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  2. FI
    Froma I. Zeitlin

    Princeton University, United States

    2 publications · 286 citations

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  3. GE
    Gunnel Ekroth

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    2 publications · 89 citations

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  4. CK
    Christian Kordt Højbjerg

    2 publications · 27 citations

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  5. HP
    Helene P. Foley

    Barnard College, United States

    2 publications · 208 citations

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  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    60 citations

  2. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  3. Corpus Christi College

    Vancouver, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  4. Southern Illinois University Carbondale

    Carbondale, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  5. Brandeis University

    Waltham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    36 citations

  6. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

    Santa Fe, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  7. University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    Knoxville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  8. The University of Adelaide

    Adelaide, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

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  1. Journal of Biblical Literature

    SBL · 4 publications · 120 citations

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  2. Social Anthropology

    3 publications · 57 citations

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  4. History of Religions

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  5. The Classical World

    2 publications · 730 citations

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