The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks by Paula Wissing, Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant

The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks

Paula Wissing, Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant

284 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a s...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...