Hugh's Sacrifice
Author: Cecil Marryat Norris
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 240
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Author: Cecil Marryat Norris
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dennis D. Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1134966385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNumerous ancient texts describe human sacrifices and other forms of ritual killing: in 480 BC Themistocles sacrifices three Persian captives to Dionysus; human scapegoats called pharmakoi are expelled yearly from Greek cities, and according to some authors they are killed; Locrin girls are hunted down and slain by the Trojans; on Mt Lykaion children are sacrificed and consumed by the worshippers; and many other texts report human sacrifices performed regularly in the cult of the gods or during emergencies such as war and plague. Archaeologists have frequently proposed human sacrifice as an explanation for their discoveries: from Minoan Crete children's bones with knife-cut marks, the skeleton of a youth lying on a platform with a bronze blade resting on his chest, skeletons, sometimes bound, in the dromoi of Mycenaean and Cypriot chamber tombs; and dual man-woman burials, where it is suggested that the woman was slain or took her own life at the man's funeral. If the archaeologists' interpretations and the claims in the ancient sources are accepted, they present a bloody and violent picture of the religious life of the ancient Greeks, from the Bronze Age well into historical times. But the author expresses caution. In many cases alternative, if less sensational, explanations of the archaeological are possible; and it can often be shown that human sacrifices in the literary texts are mythical or that late authors confused mythical details with actual practices.Whether the evidence is accepted or not, this study offers a fascinating glimpse into the religious thought of the ancient Greeks and into changing modern conceptions of their religious behaviour.
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 462
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 1742
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Author: Robert Demaus
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Binning
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 1468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning" by Hugh Binning. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Hugh LATIMER (Bishop of Worcester.)
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Published: 1824
Total Pages: 478
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 946
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Latimer
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 1978-07
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780918016430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection from the sermons of the most popular preacher of the English Reformation. The only edition of the sermons now in print, this volume contains a chronological table of Latimer's life and an introduction outlining his reformist ideas and the steps which led to his martyrdom.