Animals, Gods and Humans - Intro docx

... record for this book has been requested ISBN10: 0-4 1 5-3 864 9-7 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-4 1 5-3 865 0-0 (pbk) ISBN13: 97 8-0 -4 1 5-3 864 9-4 (hbk) ISBN13: 97 8-0 -4 1 5-3 865 0-0 (pbk) Taylor & Francis Group is the Academic ... interaction between gods and human beings, often as mediators. In this trinity, animals and humans share a flesh -and- blood reality,...

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... served to brutalize and radicalize the divisions between humans and non -humans. And while the sacrifice served as a focus for the relationship between humans and domestic animals, which was basically ... for food and shelter, and domestication rests on mutual benefits between humans and animals. “Contract animal” covers Graeco-Roman ideas about natural agreements betwee...

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... principle a contest of wits and skills between hunters and fishermen, between land animals and sea animals, but also between fish and fishermen, and between land animals and hunters (965F–966B, 975D, ... between animals and humans. Plutarch attacked the Stoics and defended Platonic and Pythagorean princi- ples in a work that is framed as a staged debate on behalf of hunt...

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... animals and humans is ignored in radical ways, for instance in the many stories of rein- carnation across species and, not least, in the stories of love and friendship between a human and an animal. ... tendency in Pliny and Aelian conveys the message that animals VEGETARIANISM, NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGNOMICS 72 are sometimes and on some points better than humans, and tha...

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... transformed into lower categories and back again, and in some rare cases, a human being may be transformed into a god. But while it is possible for humans and gods to turn into animals, it is never possible ... division between animals and humans than between humans and gods, which is in accordance with a general tendency in people’s thinking concerning animals in these c...

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... horses and donkeys in their stables consecrated to Epona, adorn them in processions to Isis and sacrifice and worship heads of bulls and rams. Minucius Felix derides half-goats, half -humans and gods ... Questions, 36). Gods disguised themselves as animals, as Zeus did when he visited Leda as a swan and Europa as a bull, and when he carried off Ganymede as an eagle; and...

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... Graeco- Roman world, both gods and humans were nourished with the meat of sacrificial animals, but the gods did not consume the animal flesh in the same way as humans, they did not chew and swallow ... between gods and humans. It was the cult of ethnic communities, people who were orga- nized through kinship, had a common ancestor and connections to a traditional homeland,...

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... teaching about animals and humans in the Gospel of Philip: There are animals of flesh and blood, animals in human form, gods who are characterized as animals, and finally humans who have no bestial ... animals and humans on a par with each other. He points to the simi- larities in the physical equipment of humans and animals, he compares the killing of sacrificial anim...

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... cosmic proportions, and a basic duality between oppression and despair on the one hand and hope and victory on the other. The seer describes in imaginative language the heavenly world, approaching distress and ... and teachers are more valuable than shep- herds and fishermen, metaphorical sheep and fish are more valuable than their real-life counterparts (cf. I Timothy 5:17)....

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... martyrs, and the Gospel of Philip characterizes God as “a man-eater” (Scorpiace,7;the Gospel of Philip). This is a standard Christian technique of reversal and re- evaluation. Things and happenings ... beasts [theriomacho] both by land and sea, both by night and day, being bound to ten leopards, I mean a band of soldiers, who, even when they receive benefits, show them- selves all t...

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