How Long to Read The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

How Long Does it Take to Read The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks by Marcel Detienne

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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 social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods—and ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the "other"—werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other "monsters." The study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors—all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris—apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria; the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.

How long is The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks?

The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks by Marcel Detienne is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks aloud.

What Reading Level is The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks?

The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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