Animals In Ancient Greek Religion First Edition Julia Kindt by Julia Kindt 9780429424304, 0429424302 instant download after payment.

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.