Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

Animals, Gods and Humans (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 developments in the conception of animals.

Including study of: biographies of figures such as Apollonus of Tyana; natural history; the New Testament via Gnostic texts; the church fathers; and from pagan and Christian criticism of animal sacrifice, to the acts of martyrs, the source material and detailed analysis included in this volume make it a veritable feast of information for all classicists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134169153
• Artikelnr.: 42669762

Autorenporträt

Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

Inhaltsangabe

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