Author | Walter Burkert |
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Original title | Homo Necans: Interpretationen Altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen |
Language | German |
Subject | Ancient Greek religion |
Publication date | 1972 |
Publication place | Germany |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (German: Homo Necans: Interpretationen Altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen) is a 1972 book on ancient Greek religion and mythology by the classicist Walter Burkert. It won the Weaver Award for Scholarly Literature, awarded by the Ingersoll Foundation, in 1992.