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Empedocles without horseshoes. Delphi's criticism of large sacrifices

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dc.contributor.authorHernández Castro, David
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-06T09:49:58Z
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dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.descriptionThe registered version of this article, first published in “Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences, 6 (2), 129-146", is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.5840/symposion20196210
dc.descriptionLa versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences, 6 (2), 129-146", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.5840/symposion20196210
dc.description.abstractScholars have generally analysed Empedocles’ criticism of sacrifices through a Pythagorean interpretation context. However, Empedocles’ doctrinal affiliation with this school is problematic and also not needed to explain his rejection of the ‘unspeakable slaughter of bulls.’ His position is consistent with the wisdom tradition that emanated from the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, an institution that underwent significant political and religious changes at the end of the 6th Century B.C., the impact of which was felt all over Magna Graecia. The ritual practice of sacrifice played an important role in Delphi, but the sanctuary also gave birth to a school of wisdom that was highly critical of the arrogance (hybris) of large sacrifices. Asocio-cultural analysis of the Akragas of the first half of the 5th Century B.C. provides new arguments that support this interpretation. The work of Empedocles contains more evidence of being influenced by the Delphi school of wisdom than by Orphism or Pythagoreanism.en
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dc.identifier.citationHernández Castro, David (2019). Empedocles without Horseshoes. Delphi's Criticism of Large Sacrifices, Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences, 6 (2), 129-146. https://doi.org/10.5840/symposion20196210
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5840/symposion20196210
dc.identifier.eissn2392-6260
dc.identifier.issn1584-174X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31735
dc.journal.issue2
dc.journal.titleSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences
dc.journal.volume6
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final146
dc.page.initial129
dc.publisherPhilosophy Documentation Center
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filosofía
dc.relation.departmentFilosofía
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject72 Filosofía
dc.subject.keywordsAkragasen
dc.subject.keywordsApolloen
dc.subject.keywordsMagna Graeciaen
dc.subject.keywordsPresocratic Philosophyen
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