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

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The Cattle of the Sun: Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient GreeksThough 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 them. The Cattle of the Sun ranges over a wealth of sources, both textual and archaeological, to explore why these animals mattered to the Greeks, how they

containing as they do the account of Odysseus' visit to the Phaeacians and including such famous episodes as Odysseus' meeting with Nausicaa

nooks and corners: no space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts and our reveries

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Facing the winter of his life

Insightful

To Grammar-Translation advocates who see no need to avoid L1

The only work by a classical author at all comparable to Aristotle’s treatises on animals is Xenophon’s On Horses (included in Volume VII of the Loeb edition of Xenophon)

spanning from Greece to India

after four years of Jewish rebellion

for few were those who never thought about death

will knock on the door with him

and the cleaning lady who always carries her holy water with her

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