You are looking at 1-5 of 5 entries
View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
animal
Animal Farm a fable (1945) by George Orwell which consists of a satire on Russian Communism as it developed under Stalin. The animals of the farm, led by the pigs, revolt against the cruel farmer, ...
animals in cult Reference library
Emily Kearns
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
Numerous features of Greek religion attest links between animals and gods, usually between one animal or group of animals and one divinity. Thus ...
Arcadia
A bleak and mountainous district in the central Peloponnese which became, as a result of references in Virgil's Eclogues, the traditional and incongruous location of the idealized world of the ...
Greek sacrifice
Sacrifice was the central rite in Greek religion (see religion, greek), but there is no single Greek equivalent to the English word ‘sacrifice’. The practices we bring together under this heading ...
Roman sacrifice
Roman sacrificial practices were not functionally different from Greek, although the Roman rite was distinguishable from the Greek and Etruscan. As in the Greek world, sacrifice was the central ...
View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
