| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- On gods, humans, and animals -- PART 1: Perspectives -- 1. The 'entanglement' of gods, humans, and animals in ancient Greek religion -- 2. Sources for the study of animals in ancient Greek religion -- 3. Approaches: The animal in the study of ancient Greek religion -- PART 2: Representations -- 4. Gods and heroes, humans and animals in ancient Greek myth -- 5. The theriomorphism of the major Greek gods -- 6. Greek anthropomorphism versus Egyptian zoomorphism: Conceptual considerations in Greek thought and literature -- 7. Philosophers on animals in ancient Greek religion -- PART 3: Beliefs and practices -- 8. Caloric codes: Ancient Greek animal sacrifice -- 9. Animals in ancient Greek divination: Oracles, predictions, and omens -- 10. Animals in ancient Greek dedications -- 11. Animals in Asclepian medicine: Myth, cult, and miracle healings -- 12. Circe's Ram: Animals in ancient Greek magic -- 13. Gods, humans, and animals revisited -- Index.
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