Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
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2.148; Ov. Met. 9 .1- 9 2 ; cf. H. P. Isler, Acheloos (1970), 1 1 - 2 8 , 1 1 5 - 1 9 . 58Gazette Archeologique 3 (1877), pi. 26; P. Baur, AjA 9 (1905), 159; Furtwangler, RML I 2176. ^M uller-Karpe (1966) 252, T. 9 3.1. “ See n. 5 1 above; III.7 below. For the sacrifice of a bull see Pind. 0 1 . 13 .19 ; Simonides fr. 79 Diehl; Burkert (1966) 98. 61 For A sia Minor see G. Perrot and Ch. Chipiez, Histoire de Vart V (1890), 4 8 - 5 1; Herter, RE XIX 17 2 8 -3 3 ; F. Poulsen, Delphische Studien
one suprem e and perm anent authority. The rit ual provides the orientation that transform s confrontation into unity. In the storm of history, it w as alw ays those societal organizations w ith religious foundations that were finally able to assert them selves: all that rem ained of the Rom an Empire w as the Roman Catholic Church. A n d there, too, the central act rem ained the incredible, one-tim e and voluntary sacrifice in w hich the will of the father becam e one with that of the son, a
10.45; Polemon Schol. Pind. Ol. 7 .153d ( his grandfather K rotopos. The a ik iv o v lam ent is sung in his honor at the Festival of the Lam b, w hich is held to com m em orate his nam e and "h is youth am ong the la m b s."24 It is, of course, only an appealing conjecture that the main sacrificial victim at this festival w as a lamb, but an ancient A rgive tradition sp eaks o f a "lam b-singer," dpvwdo*;, so called because he w as aw arded the sacrificial lamb as a p rize.25 Thus, it w as not A r give dignitaries but a w an d erin g death by being torn apart, "collecting," and burying; cf. I.8 .n .i2 above. 35Astour (1965) 16 3-6 8 . -"’ See above at n. 16. 116 TH E D ELPH IC TRIPOD a w h o le .1 M oreover, like O lym pia— or even more so, because of its great popularity— the sanctuary w as repeatedly entangled in political and m ilitary disorders, and each Sacred War brought n ew form s of adm inistration w hich influenced the function and sense of identity of Apollo's servants. Thus, as at O lym pia, various traditions