The Power of the Bull

ISBN-13: 9780415642828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 328 str.

Michael Rice

Opis

'The Power of the Bull' discusses mankind's enduring obsession with bulls, transcending cultures. An examination of evidence from earliest pre-history onwards reveals the bull to be a symbol of political authority, sexual potency and wealth.

Recenzje

' An idiosyncratic author who has scored a bull's eye of a book.' - The Glasgow Herald.

Spis treści

I: The Origins of the Bull-Cult; 1: The Bull-Cult in the Ancient World; 2: The Nature of the Cult; 3: The Mind of Man; 4: The Bull as Sacrificial Victim; II: The Realm of the Bull; 5: The Bull and the Upper Palaeolithic Hunters; 6: Settlement, Domestication and Urbanization; 7: Catal Hüyük and the Bull in Anatolia; 8: The Bull in Mesopotamia; 9: The Bull In Persia; 10: The Royal and Divine Bull of Egypt; 11: The Bull in the Eastern Mediterranean; 12: Arabia and the ‘Islands of the Bulls'; 13: Crete and the Bull-games; 14: The Bull and Europa; 15: The Bull in Cyprus; III: The Legacy of the Bull; 16: The Bull and the Boys; 17: Man-Bull, Bull-Man; 18: The Bull in Splendour and in Shame

O autorze

Michael Rice is well known for his work in the planning and designing of museums throughout the Arabian peninsula. He is also the highly respected author of Egypt's Making (1990), Archaeology of the Arabian Gulf (1994) and Egypt's Legacy (1997).