Animals in Ancient Greek Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animals in Ancient Greek Religion write by Julia Kindt. This book was released on 2020-07-29. Animals in Ancient Greek Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained presence not only in the traditionally well-researched cultural practice of blood sacrifice but across the full spectrum of ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices. Animals played a role in divination, epiphany, ritual healing, the setting up of dedications, the writing of binding spells, and the instigation of other ‘magical’ means. Taken together, the individual contributions to this book illustrate that ancient Greek religion constituted a triangular symbolic system encompassing not just gods and humans, but also animals as a third player and point of reference. Animals in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations in the ancient world.
Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth
Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth write by Patricia A. Johnston. This book was released on 2016-08-17. Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together a variety of approaches to the different ways in which the role of animals was understood in ancient Greco-Roman myth and religion, across a period of several centuries, from Preclassical Greece to Late Antique Rome. Animals in Greco-Roman antiquity were thought to be intermediaries between men and gods, and they played a pivotal role in sacrificial rituals and divination, the foundations of pagan religion. The studies in the first part of the volume examine the role of the animals in sacrifice and divination. The second part explores the similarities between animals, on the one hand, and men and gods, on the other. Indeed, in antiquity, the behaviour of several animals was perceived to mirror human behaviour, while the selection of the various animals as sacrificial victims to specific deities often was determined on account of some peculiar habit that echoed a special attribute of the particular deity. The last part of this volume is devoted to the study of animal metamorphosis, and to this end a number of myths that associate various animals with transformation are examined from a variety of perspectives.
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200 write by M.-Z. Petropoulou. This book was released on 2008-03-06. Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity between 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple, Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice, and the reasons why they ultimately rejected it.
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice write by Christopher A. Faraone. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World write by Sarah Hitch. This book was released on 2017-08-24. Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.
