The 25th Edmund G. Berry Lecture

7 April  2013
3:00 p.m.    room 237 University College

Dr. Brent Shaw
Department of Classics, Princeton University

The End of Sacrifice.

Sacrifice was one of the essential acts that defined religious practice in the Greek and Roman worlds. The ending of any one form of sacrifice, as indeed the whole end of the traditional sacrificial system, marked a significant watershed in thinking and behavior. The talk will consider the complexities of the end of human sacrifice in Africa under the Roman Empire.

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Edmund G. Berry [1915 - 2005]

Professor Berry accepted a position in the Department of Classics at the University of Manitoba in 1940. In 1961 he was appointed Head of the Department and served in that capacity for 17 years. In 1980, followng his retirement from full-time teaching, he was appointed Professor Emeritus.  The annual lectures have been made possible by the generosity of the friends and relatives of Professsor Berry who have contributed to The Edmund G. Berry Fund at the University of Manitoba.