Sacred (comparative religion)

Sacrifice (from a Middle English verb meaning "to make sacred", from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: sacer, sacred; sacred + facere, to make) is commonly known as the practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an...

Religion in ancient Greece

Sacrifice summary and related information.

Hiero may refer to: Hiero: a book by Xenophon. Hiero I, tyrant of Syracuse (478-467 BC). Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse (270-215 BC). Hiero Desteen, protagonist of two post-apocalypse novels by Sterling E. Lanier (Hiero's Journey and The Unforsaken...