Animals, Gods and Humans - Chapter 3 pps

... sacrifices (Haussleiter 1 935 : 30 8). As we have seen, both a belief in a close relationship between animals and humans and a wish to create a distance between them could lead to vegetari- anism and abstention ... tendency in Pliny and Aelian conveys the message that animals VEGETARIANISM, NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGNOMICS 72 are sometimes and on some points better than human...

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... business also thrived (Garnsey 1999: 134 ; Corbier 1989: 232 3) . In the Graeco- Roman world, both gods and humans were nourished with the meat of sacrificial animals, but the gods did not consume the animal ... themselves and their wives and chil- dren, for their oxen and for the ground they have sown and planted” (For the Temples, 30 .10). That animals and humans had...

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... presuppose gods who are anthropo- morphic, and rather on the childish and cruel side at that (cf. Volume 3) . Arnobius criticizes the view that gods are nourished (alere) on the sacrifices (7 .3) , that ... encom- passes animals and humans that do not harm each other. It does not include creatures – either human or animal – that according to Porphyry are harmful and evil by nat...

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... flesh and blood; rather the authorities of the universe and the spirits of wickedness’” (86:22–6). The same quotation is used by Athanasius (295 37 3 CE), the to -and- fro bishop of Alexandria, ... mind and soul, and intensify the struggle against every folly of the passions of love and base wickedness, and love of praise, and fondness of contention, and tiresome jealousy an...

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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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... dishonourable, and stupid, and only slaves, women, and little children” (3. 49.1 3) or, as Celsus also said: “wool-workers, cobblers, laundry- workers, and the most illiterate and bucolic yokels” (3. 55). ... 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 an...

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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; an...

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... snake or sea monster and is a magnified version of the serpent in Genesis and also an image of Satan (Revelation 12 :3, 12:4, 12:7, 12:9, 12: 13, 12:16, 12:17, 13: 2, 13. 4, 16: 13, 20:2). The beasts (therion) ... 21:6–11), makes seven loaves and a few little fish feed thousands of people (Matthew 15 :34 –8, cf. Matthew 14:17–21; Mark 6 :37 –44, 8:1–8; Luke 9:12–17; John 6:9– 13) and...

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... centuries, but they became subject to empire-wide persecution during the reigns of the emperors Decius (250–1 CE) and Diocletian (30 3– 13 CE). 4,5 There was prob- ably no general law against Christianity, ... martyrs, Revocatus and Saturius, were first cast to a leopard and then to a bear (19 .3) . Perpetua herself and the slave-girl Felicitas met a wild cow. They were tossed aroun...

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