Antiquity, June 1st, 2000
In his 5th-century BC Histories, Herodotus provides us with one of the earliest written accounts for the practice of cannibalism (White 1992: 7). Cannibalism or anthropophagy are terms which imply the use of parts of the human body for food (Zivanovic 1982: 192) although the definition may include anything from consuming the ashes of a cremated relative to devouring the barbecued limbs of one's enemies (Myers 1984: 149). The objective of this paper is to examine the references pertaining to cannibalism in Herodotus, review the various theories that have attempted to account for these referen...
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