Girard, R. (1977) Violence and the Sacred (translation of La Violence et le Sacré, Paris 1972). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. P.
Seaford cites Girard's Violence and the Sacred as a scholarly resource for understanding Greek sacrificial culture, positioning it within a constellation of anthropological and classicist works on ancient ritual.
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