The Culture of Animals in Antiquity

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly-presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known and others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to the part played by animals in ...

Author: Sian Lewis

Publisher:

ISBN: 0367580942

Category: Animal culture

Page: 768

View: 789

DOWNLOAD →

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly-presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known and others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals o
472 Download

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity

Dog and Hound in Antiquity (London 1971). C. Morris, 'Animals into art in the ancient world', in L. Kalof (ed.), A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity (Oxford 2007), 175–98. D.J. Osborn and J. Osbornova, The Mammals of Ancient ...

Author: Sian Lewis

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351782494

Category: History

Page: 768

View: 858

DOWNLOAD →

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the wealth of evidence – literary, historical and archaeological – which we possess for the experiences and roles of animals in the ancient world. Offering a broad picture of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean as part of a wider ecosystem, the volume is on an ambitious scale. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals of dynastic Egypt to the imagery of the lamb in early Christianity, and of region, from the fallow deer introduced and bred in Roman Britain to the Asiatic lioness and her cubs brought as a gift by the Elamites to the Great King of Persia. This sourcebook is essential for anyone wishing to understand the role of animals in the ancient world and support learning for one of the fastest growing disciplines in Classics.
818 Download

A Cultural History of Animals 6 Volume Set

In this way each volume can be read individually to cover a specific period and individual chapters can be read across volumes to follow a theme across history.

Author: Linda Kalof

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

ISBN: 1847888232

Category: Social Science

Page:

View: 142

DOWNLOAD →

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals is a multi-volume project on the history of human-animal relations from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers 4500 years of human-animal interaction. Volume 1: Antiquity to the Dark Ages (2500BC - 1000AD) Volume 2: The Medieval Age (1000-1400) Volume 3: The Renaissance (1400-1600) Volume 4: The Enlightenment (1600-1800) Volume 5: The Age of Empire (1800-1920) Volume 6: The Modern Age (1920-2000, including a discussion of animals of the future) As the same issues are central to animal-human relations throughout history, each volume shares the same structure, with chapters in each volume analysing the same issues and themes. In this way each volume can be read individually to cover a specific period and individual chapters can be read across volumes to follow a theme across history. Each volume explores: the sacred and the symbolic (totem, sacrifice, status and popular beliefs), hunting; domestication (taming, breeding, labour and companionship); entertainment and exhibitions (the menagerie, zoos, circuses and carnivals); science and specimens (research, education, collections and museums); philosophical beliefs; and artistic representations. The full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on animals through history.
334 Download

A Cultural History of Animals

P Animals had a ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world . A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BCE to 1000 CE , describing how animals were an ...

Author: Linda Kalof

Publisher:

ISBN: CORNELL:31924108221668

Category: Animals

Page: 280

View: 493

DOWNLOAD →

A compete history from antiquity to today of the history of animals and of their relationship with humans.
659 Download

Animals in Ancient Greek Religion

Contribution à l'étude de la place de l'animal dans la religion grecque ancienne. ... A Cultural History ... Defining the divine and structuring the world through animal sacrifice in ancient Greece', History of Religions 58, 225– 250.

Author: Julia Kindt

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429754593

Category: History

Page: 304

View: 829

DOWNLOAD →

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.
653 Download

A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity

He has edited volumes on Hellenistic history, gender identity, and dress history. Forthcoming works include The Culture of Animals in Antiquity and Through Esther's Eyes: an iconographic commentary on the Book of Esther in its ...

Author: Mary Harlow

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350114036

Category: Art

Page: 256

View: 243

DOWNLOAD →

Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to clothing across the ancient world. Covering the period 500 BCE to 800 CE and drawing on sources ranging from extant garments and architectural iconography to official edicts and literature, this volume reveals Antiquity's preoccupation with dress, which was matched by an appreciation of the processes of production rarely seen in later periods. From a courtesan's sheer faux-silk garb to the sumptuous purple dyes of an emperor's finery, clothing was as much a marker of status and personal expression as it was a site of social control and anxiety. Contemporary commentators expressed alarm in equal measure at the over-dressed, the excessively ascetic or at 'barbarian' silhouettes. Richly illustrated with 100 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.
336 Download

Animals and the Law in Antiquity

Linda Kalof, “Ancient Animals,” in A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity, ed. Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl (Oxford: Berg, 2011), 6. 51. While ostriches were native to Egypt at the time, they often feature among the tributes ...

Author: Saul M. Olyan

Publisher: SBL Press

ISBN: 9781951498849

Category: Religion

Page: 228

View: 525

DOWNLOAD →

Animal law has become a topic of growing importance internationally, with animal welfare and animal rights often assuming center stage in contemporary debates about the legal status of animals. While nonspecialists routinely decontextualize ancient texts to support or deny rights to animals, experts in fields such as classics, biblical studies, Assyriology, Egyptology, rabbinics, and late antique Christianity have only just begun to engage the topic of animals and the law in their respective areas. This volume consists of original studies by scholars from a range of Mediterranean and West Asian fields on a variety of topics at the intersection of animals and the law in antiquity. Contributors include Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, Beth Berkowitz, Andrew McGowan, F. S. Naiden, Saul M. Olyan, Seth Richardson, Jordan D. Rosenblum, Andreas Schüle, Miira Tuominen, and Daniel Ullucci. The volume is essential reading for scholars and students of both the ancient world and contemporary law.
889 Download

In the Eye of the Animal

Journal of Early Christian Studies 2 (1994): 137–53; repr. in Miller, The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion, 159–74. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. ... 1: A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity, ed.

Author: Patricia Cox Miller

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 9780812295221

Category: History

Page: 280

View: 598

DOWNLOAD →

In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how ancient texts and images celebrated a continuum of human and animal life.
150 Download

A Cultural History of Animals

A compete history from antiquity to today of the history of animals and of their relationship with humans.

Author: Linda Kalof

Publisher:

ISBN: IND:30000122428729

Category: Animals

Page: 280

View: 470

DOWNLOAD →

A compete history from antiquity to today of the history of animals and of their relationship with humans.
657 Download

An Ethical View of Human Animal Relations in the Ancient Near East

The Observation and Use of Animals in the Development of Scientific Thought in the Ancient World with Especial Reference to Egypt. In L. Kalof (Ed.), A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity (pp. 127–150). Berg. Goulder, J. (2021).

Author: Idan Breier

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783031124051

Category: Medical

Page: 262

View: 491

DOWNLOAD →

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) sources from the third millennium BCE through to the consolidation of the biblical literature in the first millennium BCE. Key Features: Provides the first comprehensive study of these texts from an ethical perspective. Examines proverbs, popular aphorisms, myths, epic literature, wisdom literature, historiography, prophecy, and law codes. Applies methodology from current contemporary biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholarship and human-animal ethics, thereby raising new questions that lead to fresh insights. ​An Ethical View of Human Animal-Relations in the Ancient Near East is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of animal ethics, applied ethics and biblical studies.
770 Download