Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice: Ancient Victims, Modern Observers

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Christopher Faraone and F. S. Naiden, eds., Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice: Ancient Victims, Modern Observers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

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Revisits the French theorists of thirty to forty years ago (Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant), who discussed the centrality of animal sacrifice in Greek and Roman religion. Although the editors summarize the contributors as essentially negating the French theorists’ claims, the actual essays included are much more ambiguous than that. Clearly, the place of animal sacrifice within Greco-Roman culture is still a question in search of a more definitive answer. - SUSAN A. CURRY