Abstract
Abstract One of the reasons why Greek theatre has become so prominent in the last three decades is that the theatre has been informed by some significant theoretical and scholarly trends which emerged from the intellectual crisis of the 1960s. In 1972, for example, there appeared two anthropological studies of sacrificial ritual, Rene Girard’s La Violence et le sacré, and Walter Burkert’s Homo Necans. Both used evidence from ancient Greece to explain the practice of sacrificial ritual, and even traced the origins of Greek tragedy to ritual practice.
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