Sparagmos
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sparagmos-161-18764815
title:
Sparagmos
text:
Sparagmos is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling, usually in a Dionysian context. In Dionysian rite as represented in myth and literature, a living animal, or sometimes even a human being, is sacrificed by being dismembered. Sparagmos was frequently followed by omophagia. It is associated with the Maenads or Bacchantes, followers of Dionysus, and the Dionysian Mysteries. Examples of sparagmos appear in Euripides's play The Bacchae. In one scene guards sent to control the Maenads witnes
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description:
Dionysian rite of sacrifice
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparagmos
date created:
2006-10-22T03:23:38Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T12:53:02Z
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