Human sacrifice - Wikipedia
Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public or jurisdictional demands for justice …
Roman Sacrifice, Inside and Out - Cambridge University Press
Jun 8, 2016 · The answer is that human sacrifice, which the Romans are quick to dismiss as something other people do (note that, although Livy is clear that the burial of Gauls and …
The ancient Romans outlawed human sacrifice in 97 BCE after increasing discomfort with the practice, but ritual killing still occurred because it was justified in a way that preserved Roman …
The Romans and ritual murder - PubMed
The Roman abhorrence of human sacrifice presented by ancient literary sources stands in contrast to the frequency of rites requiring the death of a human being performed by the …
Human Sacrifices at Rome and other notes on Roman Religion
There is in Pliny, xxviii, 12, seq. a famous statement to the effect that his own age had seen human sacrifice carried out in the Forum Boarium: “nostra aetas vidit.”
Human sacrifice | Ancient Rituals & Practices | Britannica
human sacrifice, the offering of the life of a human being to a deity. The occurrence of human sacrifice can usually be related to the recognition of human blood as the sacred life force. …
Human sacrifice and value | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Human sacrifice is a well-attested and much mythologised phenomenon of human society, but what constitutes human sacrifice? Why is socially sanctioned violence considered sacrifice? …
In the ancient world, however, animal sacrifices were not the only blood sacrifices. Human sacrifices, although they were rarely practiced, remained present in people's consciousness …
Ancient History in depth: The Practice of Human Sacrifice - BBC
Feb 28, 2011 · Dr Mike Parker-Pearson explores the dark history of human sacrifice. When the prehistoric site at Fiskerton in Lindisfarne was first excavated in 1981, archaeologists found …
It is the main purpose of this article to demonstrate that the human sacrifice that Aeneas prepares (Aeneid 10.517-20; 11.81-2) must have been intended as an extremely serious attack on …