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In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritual performance as communication.

Author

Kitts, Margo, 1952-

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511814884

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24