| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) |
| Contents |
Animals in the Roman Empire -- United by soul or divided by reason? -- Vegetarianism, natural history and physiognomics -- Imagination and transformations -- The religious value of animals -- Animal sacrifice : traditions and new inventions -- "God is a man-eater" : the animal sacrifice and its critics -- The New Testament and the lamb of God -- Fighting the beasts -- Internal animals and bestial demons -- The crucified donkey-man, the leontocephalus and the challenge of beasts -- Winged humans, speaking animals |
| Summary |
Consulting a range of key texts and source material, this book covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought. Of interest to classicists, it examines the dominant themes and developments in the conception of animals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Animals -- Religious aspects -- History of doctrines
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Animals -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Theology.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
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Religion
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Greece -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127
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Rome -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009771
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| Subject |
Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203964799 |
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9780203964798 |
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