Altar

15 books featuring this symbol

An altar is a designated surface or structure for presenting offerings to deities or ancestors. It marks a point of contact between human and sacred realms, concentrating presence through sacrifice, vows, and remembrance.

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Oresteia

Aeschylus

458 BCE

Greek

Heracles

Euripides

416 BCE

Greek

Hippolytus

Euripides

428 BCE

Greek

Trojan Women

Euripides

415 BCE

Greek

Fasti

Ovid

8-14 CE

Roman

Suppliants (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus

500-400 BCE

Greek

Iphigenia among the Taurians

Euripides

414-412 BCE

Greek

Iphigenia in Aulis

Euripides

405 BCE

Greek

On the Nature of the Gods

Cicero

45 BCE

Roman

Epinician Odes

Bacchylides

490-452 BCE

Greek

Helen

Euripides

412 BCE

Greek

The Legend of Keret

Anonymous

1400-1300 BCE

Levantine, Ugaritic

Debate Between Sheep and Grain

Anonymous

2000-1500 BCE

Mesopotamian, Sumerian

Song of Release

Anonymous

1400-1300 BCE

Levantine, Hittite

Erotika Pathemata

Parthenius of Nicaea

100-1 BCE

Greek