Cattle of the Sun - Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks

Zusatztext "In yet another instance! Princeton University Press must be commended for making an important! powerfully argued book available at a very reasonable price. . . . [T]his book must be a worthwhile accession to major college and university libraries! where all interested in the lately flourishing field of human-animal relations as well as antiquarians who study Greek religion and/or other early cultural-civic institutions and ancient economy may wish to consult it! if in fact they do not take advantage of its attractive price to acquire it for themselves." ---Victor Castellani! European Legacy Informationen zum Autor Jeremy McInerney is the Davidson Kennedy Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Folds of Parnassos . Klappentext Includes selections translated from the Ancient Greek. Zusammenfassung Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life. This title explores why these animals mattered to the Greeks, how they came to be a key element in Greek thought and behavior, and how the Greeks exploited the symbolic value of cattle as a way of structuring social and economic relations.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jeremy Mcinerney, McInerney Jeremy
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.05.2010
• EAN: 9780691140070
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14007-0
• Seiten: 360
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation