Documents from the Roman Imperial Period testify for the practice of “magic” all around the Mediterranean sea, including lists of remedies and cursing rituals, as well as the pretentions for some marvellous powers in the human sphere. In a relatively globalized world, the so-called “magical” practices are an open space for a kind of multicultural knowledge. Animals have been used in the making of medical remedies and rituals in the performance of a ritual power, to invoke the gods, or to cast curses. Getting from Pliny the Elder, the Cyranides and the greek papyri of magic, an investigation where eagle, bat, cat, dog, echeneis, hyena, hoopoe, lizards, snakes and mole talk among many other animal figures gives a chance to observe their cooki...
L’actualité nous amène souvent à regarder les choses à travers le filtre du passé et à revisiter l’h...
Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st-4...
Humanity has practised animal sacrifice for the greater part of its history, from the time of the Ne...
Documents from the Roman Imperial Period testify for the practice of “magic” all around the Mediterr...
Les premiers siècles de notre ère ont légué de nombreux témoignages de pratiques dites « magiques »,...
This thesis identifies the species belonging to the family of domestic animals in the area buried by...
Notre étude porte sur les animaux dans la littérature hellénistique. Nous avons volontairement chois...
In antiquity, there is no nosological field common to men and animals, in spite of some affinity bet...
Du 4 au 6 avril 2016, un symposium international intitulé « Animals: Cultural Identifiers in Ancient...
Initial concepts and representations of animal disease From the Paleolithic, when hunter-gatherers...
The overlap of two marginal topics in history – magic and animals – may at first seem more marginal ...
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly p...
For the first time a catalogue of animals able to cure themselves was drawn up on chapters 5 and 6 o...
Animal sacrifice in the Roman world was considered to be a form of communication with the divine sph...
Ancient authors who equated or associated barbarians, pagans and heretics with animals and monstrous...
L’actualité nous amène souvent à regarder les choses à travers le filtre du passé et à revisiter l’h...
Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st-4...
Humanity has practised animal sacrifice for the greater part of its history, from the time of the Ne...
Documents from the Roman Imperial Period testify for the practice of “magic” all around the Mediterr...
Les premiers siècles de notre ère ont légué de nombreux témoignages de pratiques dites « magiques »,...
This thesis identifies the species belonging to the family of domestic animals in the area buried by...
Notre étude porte sur les animaux dans la littérature hellénistique. Nous avons volontairement chois...
In antiquity, there is no nosological field common to men and animals, in spite of some affinity bet...
Du 4 au 6 avril 2016, un symposium international intitulé « Animals: Cultural Identifiers in Ancient...
Initial concepts and representations of animal disease From the Paleolithic, when hunter-gatherers...
The overlap of two marginal topics in history – magic and animals – may at first seem more marginal ...
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly p...
For the first time a catalogue of animals able to cure themselves was drawn up on chapters 5 and 6 o...
Animal sacrifice in the Roman world was considered to be a form of communication with the divine sph...
Ancient authors who equated or associated barbarians, pagans and heretics with animals and monstrous...
L’actualité nous amène souvent à regarder les choses à travers le filtre du passé et à revisiter l’h...
Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st-4...
Humanity has practised animal sacrifice for the greater part of its history, from the time of the Ne...