Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera

Contents

• 1. Human sacrifice, ancient and modern;
• 2. Greece;
• 3. Virgil to Augustine;
• 4. The discovery of America;
• 5. Shakespeare and the economics of sacrifice;
• 6. Britain and America: Dryden, Behn, and Defoe;
• 7. Lieto Fine: Baroque and Enlightenment sacrifice;
• 8. The French Revolution to Napoleon;
• 9. The secularization of sacrifice;
• 10. Gothic sacrifice;
• 11. Wagner;
• 12. The second coming of Dionysius;
• 13. Pentheus 1913;
• 14. Sparagmos;
• 15. Hitler and after; Bibliography.