Title: The master of animals in old world iconography /
Authors: Counts, Derek B.; Arnold, Bettina.
Date: 2010
Publisher: Archaeolingua Alapítvány,
Physical description: 261 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Contents: Prolegomenon: the many masks of the master of animals / Bettina Arnold, Derek B. Counts -- Mesopotamian "nude hero": context and interpretations / Sarah Costello -- Master of animals and animal masters in the iconography of the Indus tradition / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer -- Animal mastery in Hittite art and texts / Billie Jean Collins -- Aegean master of animals: the evidence of the seals, signets, and sealings / Janice L. Crowley -- Minoan animal-human hybridity / Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw -- Big nowhere: a master of animals in the throne room at Knossos? / Louise A. Hitchcock -- Where the wild things were: the Greek master of animals in ecological perspective / Susan Langdon -- Divine symbols and royal aspirations: the master of animals in Iron Age Cypriote religion / Derek B. Counts -- Heroic encounter in the visual arts of ancient Iraq and Iran ca. 1000-500 BC / Mark Garrison -- Agency, hybridity, and transmutation: human-animal symbolism and mastery among early Eurasian Steppe societies / Bryan K. Hanks -- Beasts of the forest and beasts of the field: animal sacrifice, hunting symbolism, and the master of animals in pre-Roman Iron Age Europe / Bettina Arnold -- Mistress and master: the politics of iconography in pre-Roman central Italy / Anthony Tuck -- Mistress of animals, the master of animals: two complementary or oppositional religious concepts in early Celtic art? / Martin Guggisberg -- Meaning in motif and ornament: the face between the creatures in mid-first-millennium AD temperate Europe / Peter S. Wells.
Subject headings (LCSH): Animals in art.; Animals, Mythical, in art.; Animals--Symbolic aspects.; Gods in art.; Human-animal relationships in art.; Symbolism in art.