Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant ; with essays by Jean-Louis Durand ... [et al.] ; translated by Paula Wissing.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1989.
vii, 276 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Translation of: La cuisine du sacrifice en pays grec.
Includes bibliographical references.
Culinary practices and the spirit of sacrifice / Marcel Detienne -- At man's table : Hesiod's Foundation myth of sacrifice / Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Greek Animals : toward a topology of edible bodies / Jean-Louis Durand -- Ritual as instrumentality / Jean-Louis Durand -- The violence of wellborn ladies : women in the Thesmophoria / Marcel Detienne -- The feast of the wolves, or the impossible city / Marcel Detienne and Jesper Svenbro -- Food in the countries of the sun / Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Self-cooking beef and the drinks of Ares / Fraņçois Hartog -- Sanctified slaughter in modern Greece : the "Kourbánia" of the saints / Stella Georgourdi -- A bibliography of Greek sacrifice / Jesper Svenbro.