Animal Sacrifice in the Roman Empire (31 BCE-395 CE)

J. B. Rives is Kenan Eminent Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His previous books include Religion in the Roman World, Tacitus: Germania (as translator and editor), and Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome (as coeditor).

Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. The Practice of Animal Sacrifice in the Roman Empire

Prologue: The Sacrifices of Nestor (Odyssey 3.5-66 and 418-72)
Chapter 2. The Economics of Animal Sacrifice
Chapter 3. Animal Sacrifice and Euergetism in the Roman Empire
Chapter 4. Animal Sacrifice and Graeco-Roman Culture
Chapter 5. Animal Sacrifice and the Roman Emperor
Epilogue

Part II. Discourses of Animal Sacrifice in Graeco-Roman Culture and Early Christianity

Prologue: Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (Acts 14.8-18)
Chapter 6. Theorizing Animal Sacrifice I: From Hesiod to Plutarch (c.700 BCE to c.100 CE)
Chapter 7. The Early Christian Displacement of Animal Sacrifice (c.50-c.150 CE)
Chapter 8. Theorizing Animal Sacrifice II: From Apollonius to Iamblichus (c.100-c.300 CE)
Epilogue

Part III. Transformations of Animal Sacrifice in Late Antiquity

Prologue: The Decree of Decius (SB I.443)
Chapter 9. The Obligations of Empire: Decius to the Tetrarchs (250-313 CE)
Chapter 10. From Roman to Pagan: Constantine to Theodosius I (313-395 CE)
Epilogue

Chapter 11. The End of Animal Sacrifice?


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