CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homicide, Animal Sacrifice

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 102
• Professor: Colivicchi Fabio

Document Summary

Clst 102 lecture 9 (last thing to know for test 1: worshipping the gods. Oferings: make connection and social interaction (having someone over to dinner) Animal sacriice: kill the animals and share with the gods: homer: Ritual practice in certain ways (not a casual thing) Not regular killing, animal life is taken but without violence. Prepare for sacriice with ribbons and lowers (look like statues: sacriice, attic red. Grains of barley and seed to the sheep"s head. Somebody playing the music: sacriicing a boar, attic red-igure vase: The blood stain in the outside (cannot wash the blood stain because we give the animals to the gods: extracting the entrails: Dividing the animals to have god"s proportion and human proportion: roasting the meat on an altar: Sharing the remaining animals with the participants: roasting the meat: Ritual activities, overcome the sense of guilt for taking animal"s life, treatment of humans against animals (humans deceive both animals and gods)