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  title info:
    title: Animal sacrifice in the Roman Empire (31 BCE-395 CE)
    sub title: power, communication, and cultural transformation
  name:
    name part: Rives, J. B.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "This book explores the changing socio-economic, political, and cultural significance of animal sacrifice in the Roman imperial period. Although animal sacrifice was only one of a wide range of offerings to the gods, it was distinctive in being more costly than many others and in generating a valuable consumer good, high-quality meat. As a result, it functioned to reinforce social structures that enabled the smooth operation of the Roman empire: the socio-economic hierarchies of Graeco-Roman cities, the normative Graeco-Roman culture that bound together urban elites, and the ideological role of the Roman emperor (Part I). At the same time as the practice of animal sacrifice performed these ideological functions, there were also, from an early date, various discourses about animal sacrifice that relocated its meaning from the social to the conceptual sphere, discourses that a range of free-lance experts, from Graeco-Roman philosophers to early Christian leaders, deployed as a means of establishing their own social power (Part II). These two aspects of animal sacrifice, as practice and as discourse, intersected both with each other and with larger economic and political developments in ways that, starting in the mid-3rd century CE, led to its becoming the object of both imperial and ecclesiastical policy. Over the course of the 4th century CE, animal sacrifice was displaced from its central role in the structuring of the empire, redefined as a marker of 'paganism', and eventually prohibited altogether (Part III)"--
  note: J.B. Rives.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
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  subject:
    topic: Meat
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Meat animals
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Animal sacrifice
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Animal sacrifice
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Sacrifice d'animaux
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Viande
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Aspect religieux
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Animaux de boucherie
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Aspect religieux
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Sacrifice d'animaux
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Rome
  subject:
    topic: Ancient
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Religion & beliefs
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  classification: BL439.5 .R56 2024
  classification: 292.3/4
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    title info:
      title: Animal sacrifice in the Roman Empire (31 BCE-395 CE)
    name:
      name part: Rives, J. B.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024001942
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240226
    record change date: 20260319204332.3
    record identifier: in00005726651
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng