The dismemberment of a victim, forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies.
the crowd is inspired to attack him and tear his clothes in the Bacchic ritual of sparagmos
Example sentencesExamples
- Mira's sparagmos almost literalizes the central message of the Orpheus myth for Rushdie.
- For such characters, the sparagmos represents the moment when history claims their work for its own.