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Animals, Gods and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought book cover

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Animals, Gods and Humans Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought

By Ingvild Saelid Gilhus Copyright 2006
330 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, Animals, Gods and Humans  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. Both the pagan and Christian conceptions of animals are rich and multilayered, and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus expertly examines the dominant themes and... Read more

Introdution  1. Animals in the Roman Empire  2. United by Soul or Divided by Reason  3. Vegetarianism, Natural History and Physiognomics  4. Imagination and Transformation  5. The Religious Value of Animals  6. Animals Sacrifice: Traditions and new Inventions  7. "God is a Man-Eater": The Animal Sacrifice and its Critics  8. The New Testament and the Lamb of God  9. Fighting the Beasts  10. Internal Animals and Bestial Demons  11. The crucIfied Donkeyman, the Leontocephalus, and the Challenge of Beasts  12. Winged Humans, Speaking Animals  Notes  Bibliography

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Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

'Gilhus's description of the ways in which ancient perceptions of animals can be said to have changed over centuries through the influence of philosophy and religion ... makes of Animals, Gods and Humans, a valuable complement to recent studies on religious transformation in late Antiquity.' - Scholia Reviews

'An impressive range of information and discussion... a very welcome addition to the growing bibliofraphy.' - History and Culture

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