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1. On the Expiatory and Substitutionary Sacrifices of the Greeks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Donaldson
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Extract

The author gives the results of his examination of the subject in the following propositions:—

1. That the sacrifices of the Greeks were offered to the gods with the idea that the food and drink would gratify them, and that the other offerings would in some way or other be pleasing to them; that the common ′people continued to offer up sacrifices with this belief till the end of Paganism; but that as the more cultivated classes came to believe that the gods did not stand in need of food, drink, or of gifts from them, substitutions became more and more general with them.

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Proceedings 1874-75
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 8 , 1875 , pp. 535 - 537
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1875

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page 536 note * Welcker thinks that human sacrifices were attacked by Sophocles in his Athamas, by Achæus in his Azanes, and possibly by Xenocles in his Lycaon. —Die Griechischen Tragödien, vol. iii. p. 965.

page 536 note † Hyp. iii. 24, p. 209.

page 536 note ‡ Welcker.—Griechische Götterlehre, ii. p. 769.