The Cattle of the Sun : : Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks / / Jeremy McInerney.
Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption. Cattle were also pivotal in mythology: gods and heroes stole cattle, expected sacrifices of cattle, and punished those who failed to provide...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 10 halftones. 1 table. |
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