%0 Journal Article
%T The Ritual Feeding in Antiquity (according to Data for the Balkan-Anatolian Region
%J The Balkans
%D 2017
%X The socio-political system of the tribal so-called age-set stratification embraces a refine mytho-ritual complex, including a specific ritual dietary manner, which namely is the object of study in the article. This ritual dietary manner or more precisely 每 a dietary manner during the initiatory period as well as during the initiatory rituality 每 formed in the ancient mytho-epic tradition the mythical image of peoples, which were presented as inhabiting the mythical limits, having a wild existence and consuming food typical for them. The data elucidating these two phenomena 每 the specific diets and the peoples following these diets 每 are presented in the article by some typical examples. The information of two authors belonging to the mytho-epic tradition of the Abioi of Homer 每 Homer himself and Aeschylus 每 is analyzed in greater detail. The author is of the opinion that it is Aeschylus who has recorded more precisely the name of this mythical people 每 Gabioi. The Thracian ※roots§ of the image of this mythical people are evidenced by this fact among others that the data of both Homer and Aeschylus describe not a nomadic style of existence but an initiatory way of life, mostly through the information about their specific dietary manner
%K initiatory rituality^ mytho-epic tradition^ Abioi^ Gabioi^ Homer^ Aeschylus^ Thracian
%U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/balkans/eng/vol5/iss1/22