Animals, Gods And Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought (repost)
Ingvild Saelid Gilhus - Animals, Gods And Humans:
Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought
Routledge | 2006 | ISBN: 0415386500 | Pages: 322 | PDF | 1.58 MB
Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought
Routledge | 2006 | ISBN: 0415386500 | Pages: 322 | PDF | 1.58 MB
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.