The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks

by Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226143538
• ISBN13: 9780226143538
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"