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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article compares the sacrifice episode in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (105-141), the fifth-century lex sacra from Selinous, and a late fifth-century votive relief from Patras to explore how ancient cultural producers harnessed the category of sacrifice to shape collective understandings about social and religious life. In the process, I evaluate the methodological assumptions that scholars have brought to each datum, which ascribe unequal historical weight to myth, inscriptions, and archaeological evidence. I conclude that to describe the sacrifice in the Hymn as straightforwardly imaginative, and the lex sacra or Patras relief as more revealing of religious realities rests on minimal support from the sources and is more reflective of modern interpretive practices. By contrast, I insist that each comparandum should be evaluated in terms of its specific interventions in the repertory of representations of sacrifice. The objective is not to reconstruct a totalizing logic of sacrifice, but to uncover the several kinds of moral reasoning ancient religious actors could negotiate and apply to their rituals.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.070 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it