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Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad

Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad

Kitts, Margo
Kitts

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Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521174244
ISBN13: 9780521174244
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 23 2012
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritual performance as communication.

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