| Description |
1 online resource (545 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter Twenty-TwoChapter Twenty-Three; General Index; Index Locorum |
| Summary |
This volume brings together a variety of approaches to the different ways in which the role of animals was understood in ancient Greco-Roman myth and religion, across a period of several centuries, from Preclassical Greece to Late Antique Rome. Animals in Greco-Roman antiquity were thought to be intermediaries between men and gods, and they played a pivotal role in sacrificial rituals and divination, the foundations of pagan religion. The studies in the first part of the volume examine the role of the animals in sacrifice and divination. The second part explores the similarities between animal |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Animals -- Religious aspects -- History -- Congresses
|
|
Animals -- Religious aspects
|
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
|
|
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Mastrocinque, Attilio
|
|
Papaioannou, Sophia
|
| ISBN |
9781443898218 |
|
144389821X |
|
