Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal : |
Gilhus Ingvild Sælid
(Auteur) |
Format : |
Livre |
Langue : |
anglais |
Titre complet : |
Animals, gods and humans : changing attitudes to animals in Greek, Roman and early Christian ideas / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus |
Publié : |
London [etc.] :
Routledge
, 2006
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Description matérielle : |
1 vol. (VIII-322 p.) |
Contenu : |
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 |
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