The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry / Charles H. Stocking, University of Western Ontario

• VerfasserIn: Stocking, Charles H. 1980-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 198 Seiten; Illustration; 24 cm
• Notes: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 173-192

This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the 'Theogony', the Homeric 'Hymn to Demeter', the Homeric 'Hymn to Hermes', and the 'Odyssey' in conjunction with evidence from material culture, it demonstrates how sacrifice narratives in early Greek hexameter poetry are intimately connected to a mythic-poetic discourse referred to as the "politics of the belly". This mythic-poetic discourse presents sacrifice as a site of symbolic conflict between the male stomach and female womb for both mortals and immortals. Ultimately, the book argues that the ritual of sacrifice operates as a cultural mechanism for the perpetuation of patriarchal ideology not just in early Greek hexameter, but throughout Greek cultural history