The cattle of the sun : cows and culture in the world of the ancient Greeks / Jeremy McInerney.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.Description: xvii, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780691140070 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0691140073 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Cattle -- Greece -- History
- Pastoral systems -- Greece -- History
- Cattle -- Greece -- Religious aspects -- History
- Animal sacrifice -- Greece -- History
- Fasts and feasts -- Greece -- History
- Cattle trade -- Greece -- History
- National characteristics, Greek -- History
- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C
- Greece -- Religious life and customs
- Greece -- Economic conditions -- To 146 B.C
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- SF196.G8 M38 2010
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Includes selections translated from the Ancient Greek.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-334) and index.
Cattle habits -- The paradoxes of pastoralism -- Cattle systems in Bronze Age Greece -- Epic consumption -- Heroes and gods -- Gods, cattle, and space -- Sacred economics -- Cities and cattle business -- Sacred law -- Authority and value -- Conclusions.
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