Interpretaciones de ritos sacrificiales y mitos de la antigua Grecia
Hunting as a means of obtaining food was a decisive step in the history of humanity and marked the progress of our civilization. Burkert, based on this fact and all that it entails—aggression and violence, still central to our present—studies its transition to the sacred and in religious behavior. Analyzing its roots and development is the purpose of this book, which focuses on the Greek world, since, as he himself states, "the religion of ancient Greece occupies a unique position: among the oldest religious forms, it is the most comprehensible and the one that can be understood from the most angles, since it has not completely disappeared, but survives in phenomena of diverse kinds, from superstition and literary heritage to Christian liturgy and theology."
