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Animals in Ancient Greek Religion (Paperback)
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Animals in Ancient Greek Religion (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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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.
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