PDA

View Full Version : Human sacrifice?



portcontrol7
11-02-2010, 04:48 PM
In book three, Agamemnon cements the truce with a sacrifice. Is this a human sacrifice?

prendrelemick
11-02-2010, 05:54 PM
No, they were lambs.

There is mention of human sacrifice though in Homer. Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter Iphiginia to get favourable winds for the expedition to Troy, and Polyxena, a princess of troy was sacrificed after the fall of that city.
Also Achilles sacrificed 12 (I think) noble Trojan youths at Patroclus' funeral