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Sparagmos

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Sparagmos rate
(Verb) Refers to an ancient Dionysian ritual in which either a living animal or human would be sacrificed by being dismembered, ripping the limbs from the body and after committing homophagia.
Usage: The Maenads committed Sparagmos with a bull (in The Bacchae by Euripides)


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