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The Sacrifice of Goats in Homer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

John A. Scott
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Extract

On p. 49 of the number of the Classical Quarterly for January, 1917, Mr. Alex. Pallis suggests an emendation in the reference to sacrifice of goats in A. 40, 66, 315, on the assumption that such a sacrifice is not Homeric: ‘In no other Homeric passages do we find an allusion to sacrifices of goats, nor is it likely that offerings of animals so little prized would have been thought acceptable to the gods. It is clear, therefore, that in the above passages we must read $$$ίων instead of α$$$γ$$$ν.’

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1918

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