Strange creatures: anthropology in antiquity

"This book examines ancient ideas of the creation of the world, the beginnings of life and origin of species, humans and animals, utopians and blessed islands, and 'barbarian' cultures beyond the Mediterranean world, before going on to trace the influence of ancient anthropological an...

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1. Verfasser: Campbell, Gordon Lindsay (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Duckworth 2006
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"This book examines ancient ideas of the creation of the world, the beginnings of life and origin of species, humans and animals, utopians and blessed islands, and 'barbarian' cultures beyond the Mediterranean world, before going on to trace the influence of ancient anthropological and ethnological thought of the Middle Ages and the renaissance. We begin with primordial chaos and end with the invention of the Americas, taking in many strange creatures, from the savages of Britain, Gaul and Ireland, to the Man-faced Ox-creatures of Empedocles, the Dog-heads of India and the Tupinamba of Brazil."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:IX, 185 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0715633910
9780715633915

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