Chapter 2. The Libation

Table of Contents

• Title
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Book I: Economy
• Section 1: Livestock and Wealth
• Chapter 1. Male and Sire
• Chapter 2. A Lexical Opposition in Need of Revision: sūs and porcus
• Chapter 3. Próbaton and the Homeric Economy
• Chapter 4. Livestock and Money: pecu and pecunia
• Section 2: Giving and Taking
• Chapter 5. Gift and Exchange
• Chapter 6. Giving, Taking, and Receiving
• Chapter 7. Hospitality
• Chapter 8. Personal Loyalty
• Section 3: Purchase
• Chapter 9. Two Ways of Buying
• Chapter 10. Purchase and Redemption
• Chapter 11. An Occupation without a Name: Commerce
• Section 4: Economic Obligations
• Chapter 12. Accountancy and Valuation
• Chapter 13. Hiring and Leasing
• Chapter 14. Price and Wages
• Chapter 15. Credence and Belief
• Chapter 16. Lending, Borrowing, and Debt
• Chapter 17. Gratuitousness and Gratefulness
• Book II: The Vocabulary of Kinship
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Importance of the Concept of Paternity
• Chapter 2. Status of the Mother and Matrilineal Descent
• Chapter 3. The Principle of Exogamy and its Applications
• Chapter 4. The Indo-European Expression for “Marriage” [1]
• Chapter 5. Kinship Resulting from Marriage
• Chapter 6. Formation and Suffixation of the Terms for Kinship
• Chapter 7. Words Derived from the Terms for Kinship
• Book III: Social Status
• Chapter 1. Tripartition of Functions
• Chapter 2. The Four Divisions of Society
• Chapter 3. The Free Man
• Chapter 4. Phílos
• Chapter 5. The Slave and the Stranger
• Chapter 6. Cities and Communities
• Book IV: Royalty and its Privileges
• Chapter 1. Rex
• Chapter 2. xšay- and Iranian Kingship
• Chapter 3. Hellenic Kingship
• Chapter 4. The Authority of the King
• Chapter 5. Honour and Honours
• Chapter 6. Magic Power
• Chapter 7. Krátos
• Chapter 8. Royalty and Nobility
• Chapter 9. The King and His People
• Book V: Law
• Chapter 1. Thémis
• Chapter 2. Díkē
• Chapter 3. Ius and the Oath in Rome
• Chapter 4. *med- and the Concept of Measure
• Chapter 5. Fas
• Chapter 6. The Censor and Auctoritas
• Chapter 7. The Quaestor and the *Prex
• Chapter 8. The Oath in Greece
• Book VI: Religion
• Chapter 1. The “Sacred”
• Chapter 2. The Libation
• Chapter 3. The Sacrifice
• Chapter 4. The Vow
• Chapter 5. Prayer and Supplication
• Chapter 6. The Latin Vocabulary of Signs and Omens
• Chapter 7. Religion and Superstition

Luke Hollis

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