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

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Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad - Kitts, Margo
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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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Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad 2012, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521174244

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Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad 2005, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780521855297

Hardcover