TY - BOOK AU - Gilhus,Ingvild Sl̆id TI - Animals, gods, and humans: changing attitudes to animals in Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought SN - 0415386497 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - BL795.A54 G55 2006 U1 - 202/.12 22 PY - 2006/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Animals KW - Religious aspects KW - History of doctrines KW - Christianity KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Greece KW - Religion KW - Rome N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Animals in the Roman Empire -- United by soul or divided by reason -- Vegetarianism, natural history, and physiognomics -- Imagination and transformation -- The religious value of animals -- Animals sacrifice : traditions and new inventions -- God is a man-eater? : the animal sacrifice and its critics -- The New Testament and the Lamb of God -- Fighting the beasts -- Internal animals and bestial demons -- The crucified donkeyman, the leontocephalus, and the challenge of beasts -- Winged humans, speaking animals UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005019288.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2005019288-d.html ER -