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"This collection gives an overview of how animals feature in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, in belief and practices, the literary and material evidence, reality and representation. An international team of contributors illuminate the triangular symbolic relationship between gods, humans and animals, which was central to ancient Greek religion as it transcended beliefs and practices in different areas of religious experience....

Traces the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century B.C. to the fifth century A.D., examining local practices and ideas in the context of general Greek ideas.

"The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion is the first A-Z reference work of its kind. From Abaris to Zoroaster the Dictionary provides invaluable information not only on the mythologies of Greece and Rome but also on festivals, religious places, monuments, personnel, divination, astrology, magic, Judaism, Christianity, regional religions, and 'mystery cults' in the Graeco-Roman world." "Offering quick, accessible information in short...

In this immensely erudite book, German classicist Bruno Snell traces the establishment of a rational view of the nature of man as evidenced in the literature of the Greeks- in the creations of epic and lyric poetry, and in the drama. Here are the crucial stages in the intellectual evolution of the Greek world: the Homeric world view, the rise of the individual in the early Greek lyric, myth and reality in Greek tragedy, Greek ethics, the origin of...