How to make a sacrifice in Ancient Rome
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Sacrifice- ritual and belief in Ancient Rome. How did the Romans go about making an offering to the gods? It was quite a complicated, involved process. Each god demanded something different. And the occasion also necessitated distinct requirements. Let's explore the ins and outs of sacrifice in the Roman world - ritual, practice, and what the Romans actually believed.
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Well if you do the linear equation, you will find out that X=mc2 and that means that the animal sacrifices were done correctly
This was a really informative video and I will most definitely check out your UA-cam.
I was wondering if you have any recommended reading for this subject? I'm currently writing a Bachelors Dissertation on how sacrifice was likely conducted during the Hellenistic period and so I'm planning to draw on Roman practices as well as Greek and Egyptian.
Keep up the great work!
Yes indeed- there are many- look at articles/ books by M. Beard, J. Scheid, Turcan, for starters.
Great
It's a difficult topic, but so is life we eat supermarket meat who is slaughtered in dishonored terrible industrial way that is not right. There is a way to sacrifice an animal to honor and thank it. The native indians know this. The Roman sacrificed animals, we don't know how cruel it was.
It was one way that poor folks could get any meat. All those leftovers, the lips, ears, snoots, taints n' goiters n' such... It would have been kinda like the Foo Skrelff
Thanks for this; I'm trying to see if I can merge mythical beasts into Roman era Italy, and someone brought up " well, wouldn't the Roman's Sacrifice them to the various Gods?" And I was curious exactly how they'd have gone about that... though I'd imagine that sacrificing something like a gryphon would go a BIT differently than a bull...
Questions, possibly sounding a bit morbid; I keep seeing that the animal in question should be "calm" before they are killed, and I'm also seeing both that a knife and a axe would have been used; would the usage of various plants/drugs have been used to keep a animal calm and what was the most common implement used for sacrificing a animal?
Would it have been the traditional method of a knife across the throat or a axe to the back of the neck?
Awesome
I did attend this webinar and I loved it but a question came to my mind after it was over.. What was the effect of the edict of Milan of Constantine over these sacrifices? Were they stopped in the city of rome and in the empire or did they slowly die out as more and more people turned to Christianity.. I mean what was the impact of Constantine and the growing influence of Christianity on the sacrifices?
Ayushmaan Chakraborty pagan sacrifices continued well beyond Constantine / old habits died hard!!
Isaac Mitchell excellent recognition of this scholar Alok Sinha’s excellent opinion.
Great question. Sacrifices didn't end over night. It was gradual, as more and more repressive legislation punished those worshipping the old gods. It went on til the end of the 5C, long after Constantine's reign.