Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age & Roman Europe by Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age & Roman Europe

Miranda Aldhouse-Green

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Explains "the nature of sacrifice in antiquity" and "different aspects of the subject: the notion of flesh for the gods; rites of fire and blood; the significance of defleshing heads and of skulls; suffocation ... ; the selection of victims and th...

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