Animals in Ancient Greek Religion

ISBN-13: 9780367524821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str.

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The editor does an excellent job of framing the whole with a separate introduction and a concluding chapter, and the opening three chapters by McInerney, Gilhus, and Kearns are suggested reading for those new to ancient animal studies, religious or otherwise. Together these contributions offer sensible historiography and valuable bibliography and establish several recurring themes: the entanglement of human, animal, and supernatural; the diversity and place of animals in religious thought and cult; the evolving nature of ancient Greek religion. Although blood sacrifice has long been the focus of animals in Greek religion, this book gently prods us to reconsider its centrality. The non-Greek comparisons with the ancient Near East and Egypt, and with modern India, may especially appeal to some readers.

Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia, Religious Studies Review

 

This volume provides great insight and a range of stimulating papers focused around a topic of great interest. The diversity of approaches and materials and the interesting nature of the case studies analysed considerably enrich our knowledge of and reflections on animals across the full spectrum of ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices.

Bruno D'Andrea, ARYS: Antiquity, Religions and Societies

O autorze

Julia Kindt is Professor of Ancient Greek History in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a current Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2018–22). Her publications include Rethinking Greek Religion (2012) and Re-visiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece (2016), as well as several co-edited volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015).