The cattle of the sun
Subtitle: cows and culture in the world of the ancient Greeks
By: Jeremy McInerney.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691140070
Subjects: Cattle -- Greece -- History; Pastoral systems -- Greece -- History; Cattle -- Greece -- Religious aspects -- History; Animal sacrifice -- Greece -- History; Fasts and feasts -- Greece -- History; Cattle trade -- Greece -- History; National characteristics, Greek -- History; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C; Greece -- Religious life and customs; Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cattle habits; title: The paradoxes of pastoralism; title: Cattle systems in Bronze Age Greece; title: Epic consumption; title: Heroes and gods; title: Gods, cattle, and space; title: Sacred economics; title: Cities and cattle business; title: Sacred law; title: Authority and value; title: Conclusions.