Keyword: Ancient Greeks
Persons bringing sacrifices to Hercules (1629)
from: Philostratus of Lemnos. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates, sophistes grecs, et les Statues de Callistrate, tr. Blaise de Vigenère. Paris. 1629, p. 494.
The Warburg Institute, London
On Eating Meat and Human Sacrifice. Greek Anthropology in Asclepiades of Cyprus and Theophrastus of Eresus
in: Faces of Hellenism. Studies in the History of the Eastern Mediterranean (4th Century B.C.-5th Century A.D.), pp. 11-47
Leuven: Peeters, 2009.
Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, the booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles Wherein the Hebrevv vvords and sentences, are compared with, and explained by the ancient Greeke and Chaldee versions, and other records and monuments of the Hebrewes: but chiefly by conference with the holy Scriptures, Moses his words, lawes and ordinances, the sacrifices, and other legall ceremonies heretofore commanded by God to the Church of Israel, are explained. With an advertisement touching some objections made against the sinceritie of the Hebrew text, and allegation of the Rabbines in these annotations. As also tables directing unto such principall things as are observed in the annotations upon each severall booke
London: M. Flesher ; J. Haviland ; John Bellamie, 1627.
A King Compelled to Offer a Sacrifice by Two Gorgonians (17th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Iphigenia Sacrifice (18th Century)
Private collection
Sacrifice of Codrus [1350 - 1400]
from: Speculum humanae salvationis (Bologna) [Arsenal, Ms 593, fol. 18v]
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Sacrifice of Polyxena (15th)
from: Boccaccio, Giovanni. Des cleres et nobles femmes, BNF, Fol. 47r.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Self-sacrifice of King Codrus of Athens (1432)
from: Speculum humanae salvationis, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Ms Vit. 25-7 (olim B. 19), fol. 24r
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
Suicide of a Woman on an Altar (1532)
from: Francesco Petrarca, Von der Artzney bayder Glück, des guten vnd widerwertigen: unnd weß sich ain yeder inn Gelück und Unglück halten sol; auß dem Lateinischen in das Teutsch gezogen, Augspurg, Steyner, 1532, p. clviii
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of Lystra (1750)
from: Great Britain
V&A Museum, London
The sacrifice of Polyxena (1401)
from: Boccaccio, Giovanni, De claris mulieribus, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12420, fol. 56v
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
The Sacrifice of Polyxena. Folding Fan Showing the Painting of Pietro da Cortona (1730)
from: Holland
The State Ermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Iphigenia Sacrifice (1553)
Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XV.261.43)
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
ΙΕΡΑ ΖΩΙΑ, Contribution à l'étude de la place de l'animal dans la religion grecque ancienne
Bruxelles: Académie royale de Belgique, 1978.
A sacrifice offered by Hermocrates [1548 - 1555]
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon
The Sacrifice of King Oetes (16th Century)
from: Gohory, Jacques. Livre de la Conqueste de la Toison d'or, par le Prince Jason de Tessalie : faict par figures avec exposition d'icelles, [Paris], n.p., 1563, no page
Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Paris