Aristotle's Delphic Knife.
The subject of this article is the classical Greek history of religion, particularly ritual sacrifice in relation to political ethics. This article recovers the lost meaning of the Delphic knife made by coppersmiths that Aristotle's Politics (1.2 1252b) contrasted with the city famously made by Natu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion Vol. 104; no. 3; pp. 333 - 350 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jul2024
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