Animals, gods, and humans changing attitudes to animals in Greek, Roman, and early Christian ideas /

• Main Author: Gilhus, Ingvild Sµlid
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
• Subjects: Animals > Religious aspects > History of doctrines.; Animals > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.; Greece > Religion.; Rome > Religion.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Animals in the Roman Empire
• United by soul or divided by reason
• Vegetarianism, natural history, and physiognomics
• Imagination and transformation
• The religious value of animals
• Animals sacrifice : traditions and new inventions
• God is a man-eater? : the animal sacrifice and its critics
• The New Testament and the Lamb of God
• Fighting the beasts
• Internal animals and bestial demons
• The crucified donkeyman, the leontocephalus, and the challenge of beasts
• Winged humans, speaking animals.