Translator's Preface ........................................... xi
Preface to the English Edition ............................... xiii
List of Illustrations ........................................ xvii
Introduction .................................................. xix
I. SACRIFICE, HUNTING, AND FUNERARY RITUALS ..................... 1
1. Sacrifice as an Act of Killing ............................... 1
2. The Evolutionary Explanation: Primitive Man as Hunter ....... 12
3. Ritualization ............................................... 22
4. Myth and Ritual ............................................. 29
5. The Function and Transformation of Ritual Killing ........... 35
6. Funerary Ritual ............................................. 48
7. The Sexualization of Ritual Killing: Maiden Sacrifice,
Phallus Cult ................................................ 58
8. Father God and Great Goddess ................................ 72
II. WEREWOLVES AROUND THE TRIPOD KETTLE ........................ 83
1. Lykaia and Lykaion .......................................... 84
2. Pelops at Olympia ........................................... 93
3. Thyestes and Harpagos ...................................... 103
4. Aristaios and Aktaion ...................................... 109
5. The Delphic Tripod ......................................... 116
6. A Glance at Odysseus ....................................... 130
III. DISSOLUTION AND NEW YEAR'S FESTIVAL ...................... 135
1. From Ox-Slaying to the Panathenaic Festival ................ 136
Dipolieia .................................................. 136
Skira ...................................................... 143
Arrhephoria ................................................ 150
Panathenaia ................................................ 154
Excursus: The Trojan Horse ................................. 158
2. Argos and Argeiphontes ..................................... 161
3. Agrionia ................................................... 168
4. Tereus and the Nightingale ................................. 179
5. Antiope and Epopeus ........................................ 185
6. The Lemnian Women .......................................... 190
7. The Return of the Dolphin .................................. 196
8. Fish Advent ................................................ 204
IV. ANTHESTERIA ............................................... 213
1. Testimonia and Dissemination ............................... 213
2. Pithoigia and Choes ........................................ 216
3. Carians or Keres ........................................... 226
4. Sacred Marriage and Lenaia-Vases ........................... 230
5. Chytroi and Aiora .......................................... 238
6. Protesilaos ................................................ 243
V. ELEUSIS .................................................... 248
1. Documentation and Secret ................................... 248
2. The Myth of Kore and Pig-Sacrifice ......................... 256
3. Myesis and Synthema ........................................ 265
4. The Sacrifice in the Telesterion ........................... 274
5. Overcoming Death and Encountering Death: Initiation and
Sacrifice .................................................. 293
Abbreviations and Bibliography ................................ 299
Index of Cult Sites and Festivals ............................. 309
Index of Names of Gods and Heroes ............................. 313
Index of Persons and Things ................................... 319
Index of Greek Words .......................................... 331
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