The Cattle of the Sun : : Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks /

The Cattle of the Sun : : Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks / / Jeremy McInerney.

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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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McInerney, Jeremy,
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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note about Spellings and Translations
  • Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER 1. Cattle Habits
  • CHAPTER 2. The Paradoxes of Pastoralism
  • CHAPTER 3. Cattle Systems in Bronze Age Greece
  • CHAPTER 4. Epic Consumption
  • CHAPTER 5. Heroes and Gods
  • CHAPTER 6. Gods, Cattle, and Space
  • CHAPTER 7. Sacred Economics
  • CHAPTER 8. Cities and Cattle Business
  • CHAPTER 9. Sacred Law
  • CHAPTER 10. Authority and Value
  • CHAPTER 11. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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