Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera by Derek Hughes

Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera

Derek Hughes

313 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. It is prominent in Greek epic and tragedy, and returned to haunt writers after the discovery of the Aztec mass sacrifices. It has been treated by some of t...

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