• RecordNumber
    4534
  • Author
    Gilhus, Ingvild S�lid
  • Title

    Animals, gods, and humans : changing attitudes to animals in Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought

  • Author Statement
    Ingvild Sʹlid Gilhus
  • Publication
    Routledge
  • Publication Year
    2005
  • Collation
    p. cm.
  • Notes
    Includes bibliographical references and index , Animals in the Roman Empire -- United by soul or divided by reason -- Vegetarianism, natural history, and physiognomics -- Imagination and transformation -- The religious value of animals -- Animals 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 donkeyman, the leontocephalus, and the challenge of beasts -- Winged humans, speaking animals
  • Subject

    Animals , Animals , Greece , Rome

  • Main class
    202.
  • Sub class
    12
  • Cutter no
    G473