Ingvild Saelid Gilhus explores the transition from traditional
Greek and Roman religion to Christianity in the Roman Empire and
the effect of this change on the concept of animals, illustrating
the main factors in the creation of a Christian conception of
animals. One of the underlying assumptions of the book is that
changes in the way animal motifs are used and the way human-animal
relations are conceptualized serve as indicators of more general
cultural shifts. Gilhus attests that in late antiquity, animals
were used as symbols in a general redefinition of cultural values
and assumptions.
A wide range of key texts are consulted and range from
philosophical treaties to novels and poems on metamorphoses; from
biographies of holy persons such as Apollonius of Tyana and Antony,
the Christian desert ascetic, to natural history; from the New
Testament via Gnostic texts to the church fathers; from pagan and
Christian criticism of animal sacrifice to the acts of the martyrs.
Both the pagan and the Christian conception of animals remained
rich and multilayered through the centuries and this book presents
the dominant themes and developments in the conception of animals
without losing that complexity.
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