CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Theramenes, Homicide

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Sacrifice: roast the meat and pour wine on the meat. There are representations of gods pouring a libation in honour of those who have died. Holochaust= whole burnt type of sacrifice which happened in special cases: the whole body of the victim was burned, this happened in the instances of homicide and hero cults. Human sacrifice is mentioned in myths, but there is no historical record of it: generally the human sacrifice is a woman, the human sacrifice was treated like an animal, sacrifice of iphigenia. To appease the gods he was asked to sacrifice his daughter. The goddess arthenes decided to turn the daughter into a deer. A killer would have to leave the city after being convinced of his crime and would have to find a new place where he could be purified. Purification of orestes: he killed his mom and her lover, because they had killed his dad, he went to delphi in order to be purified.