greek-customsfeatured in 13 works
Animal Sacrifice (Thysia)
The central Greek act of cult in which an animal was ritually slaughtered at an altar, its thigh-bones and fat burned for the gods while worshippers shared the cooked meat in a communal feast.
How it traveled
- HistoriesThurii (Magna Graecia) · -425explains
- AnabasisAthens · -354explains
- HellenicaAthens · -354explains
- CyropaediaAthens · -354explains
- Constitution of the LacedaimoniansAthens · -354explains
- MemorabiliaAthens · -354explains
- EconomicsAthens · -354explains
- GeographyAmaseia · 24explains
- Quaestiones RomanaeChaeronea · 120explains
- Quaestiones ConvivalesChaeronea · 120explains
- Quaestiones GraecaeChaeronea · 120explains
- Description of Greece— · 180explains
- DeipnosophistaeNaucratis · 230explains
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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis
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Description of Greece · Pausanias
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