Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.

简·艾伦·哈里森（Jane Ellen Harrison，1850-1928），西方古典学历史上里程碑式的人物，剑桥学派“神话一仪式”学说的创立者；英国维多利亚时代的文坛女杰，同时也是现代女权主义的学术奠基人之。她广涉古典学、考古学、人类学、语言学、美学、神话学、历史学等诸多学科，掌握了包括德语、拉丁语、希腊语、希伯来语、波斯语、俄语等在内的十六种语言。著述宏富，已翻译成中文的有：《希腊宗教研究导论》（Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion,1903）、《古希腊宗教的社会起源》（Themis:A Study of the Social Origins of the Greek Religion，1912）等。

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx’s concept of an “Asiatic” mode of production, Wittfogel’s “hydraulic hypothesis,” and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ra...(展开全部)

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx’s concept of an “Asiatic” mode of production, Wittfogel’s “hydraulic hypothesis,” and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ra...(展开全部)

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the long-awaited English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolaria della Lingua Greca. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally even beyond. Christian literat...(展开全部)

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the long-awaited English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolaria della Lingua Greca. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally even beyond. Christian literat...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 约翰·伯瑞（J.B. Bury，1861–1927)，英国著名古典学者、拜占庭史学家和语言学家。1893-1902任都柏林三一大学伊拉斯谟·史密斯（Erasmus Smith）讲座教授。1902年直至逝世，任剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授。 【译者简介】 符莹岩，北京大学历史学博士，上海交通大学博士后。研究领域为希腊罗马史。 张继华，北京师范大学历史学博士，现供职于首都博物馆。研究领域为希腊罗马史和博物馆学。曾参与2010年国家社科基金重大招标项目《剑桥古代史》的翻译工作。

【作者简介】 约翰·伯瑞（J.B. Bury，1861–1927)，英国著名古典学者、拜占庭史学家和语言学家。1893-1902任都柏林三一大学伊拉斯谟·史密斯（Erasmus Smith）讲座教授。1902年直至逝世，任剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授。 【译者简介】 符莹岩，北京大学历史学博士，上海交通大学博士后。研究领域为希腊罗马史。 张继华，北京师范大学历史学博士，现供职于首都博物馆。研究领域为希腊罗马史和博物馆学。曾参与2010年国家社科基金重大招标项目《剑桥古代史》的翻译工作。

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