anthropophagy

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Thu Feb 9 18:24:59 UTC 2012


I see the Odyssey has androphagos (man-eating, attributive to the Cyclops),
clearly only referring to the eating of machomen. Herodotus uses the plural
term with reference to northerly neighbors of the Scythians. OED
androphagous glossed with anthropophagous.

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