Animals, gods and humans
Subtitle: changing attitudes to animals in Greek, Roman and early Christian ideas
By: Ingvild S'lid Gilhus.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Animals -- Religious aspects -- History of doctrines.; Animals -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.; Greece -- Religion.; Rome -- Religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Animals in the Roman Empire; value: United by soul or divided by reason?; value: Vegetarianism, natural history, and physiognomics; value: Imagination and transformations; value: The religious value of animals; value: Animal sacrifice : traditions and new inventions; value: "God is a man-eater" : the animal sacrifice and its critics; value: The New Testament and the lamb of God; value: Fighting the beasts; value: Internal animals and bestial demons; value: The crucified donkey-man, the leontocephalus, and the challenge of beasts; value: Winged humans, speaking animals.