Animals, gods and humans : changing attitudes to animals in Greek, Roman and early Christian ideas
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
- ناشر : London ; New York : Routledge
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2006
- شابک / ISBN : 9780203964798
Description
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.
