Jeremy McInerney (Whitehead Professor, ASCSA; Davidson Kennedy Professor, University of Pennsylvania) will give a lecture entitled “Bouphonia: Killing Cattle on the Acropolis.”
In ancient Greece, the Buphonia (“ox-slayings”) denoted a sacrificial ceremony performed at Athens as part of the Dipolieia, a religious festival held on the 14th of the midsummer month Skirophorion— in June or July— at the Acropolis.