The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks by Marcel Detienne

The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

Marcel Detienne with Paula Wissing (Translator)

284 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 s...

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