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  • Geography & Building Descriptions
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Human Sacrifice

Azanes, Sacrifices to Zeus (fr. 1 ff.)

Achaeus of Eretria

City of God

St. Augustine

Library and Epitome

Apollodorus

Minos: Human Sacrifice

Plato

Natural History: Wolves; The Origin of the Story of Versipellis

Pliny

On Abstinence from Killing Animals: History of Sacrificial Acts

Porphyry

Orations: Alcman's Hymn to Lykaian Zeus

Himerius

Preparation of the Gospels

Republic: Cannibalism, Lycanthropy

Plato

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Dr. David Gilman Romano Nicholas & Athena Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology School of Anthropology, University of Arizona

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