Pecus. Man and animal in antiquity
Proceedings of the conference at the Swedish Institute in Rome, September 9-12, 2002.
Ed. B. Santillo Frizell (The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and Seminars, 1), Rome 2004.
© The Swedish Institute in Rome and individual authors.
ISSN 1824-7725
From the very beginning of civilization domestic animals constituted an undividable part in the life of human beings. Since then people have lived with animals in their daily life, for work and production, for transport of goods and men in war and peace, for ceremonial processions, as pets and faithful companions, and as symbols and metaphors for ideological concepts. The aim of the PECUS-conference at the Swedish Institute in Rome, September 2002, was to investigate the relation between man and animal in antiquity, going beyond the purely utilitarian aspects. This volume presents the results of the meeting, which gathered scholars from all over the world including a choice of academic disciplines and scholarly traditions.
Introduction – Barbro Santillo Frizell
Economy, administration, transhumance
Alessandro Greco, The pastoral calendar and the importance of the growth rate of lambs in the management of breeding: the case of the Knossos archive
Hedvig Landenius Enegren, Animals and men at Knossos – the Linear B evidence
Françoise Rougemont, The administration of Mycenaean sheep rearing (flocks, shepherds, “collectors”)
Stefania Berlioz, Vie del sacro, vie della transumanza: il Kabeirion di Tebe nella prima Età del Ferro
Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin, Some considerations about the evolution of the animal exploitation in central Italy from the Bronze Age to the classical period
Michael MacKinnon, The role of caprines in Roman Italy: idealized and realistic reconstructions using ancient textual and zooarchaeological data
Jacopo Bonetto, Agricoltura e allevamento in Cisalpina: alcuni spunti per una riflessione
Guido Rosada, Altino e la via della transumanza nella Venetia centrale
Barbro Santillo Frizell, Curing the flock. The use of healing waters in Roman pastoral economy (with an appendix by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.)
Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja, Pecora consectari: transhumance in Roman Spain
Sacrifice, literature, music and communication
James A. Arieti, Horatian second thoughts on animal sacrifice
Britt-Mari Näsström, The sacrifices of Mithras
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, The animal sacrifice and its critics
Paola E. Raffetta, On the creation of domestic animals in Proto-Indo European mythology
Phoebe Giannisi, The cows and the poet in ancient Greece
Louis L’Allier, Des chevaux et des hommes. Sur les couples hommes-chevaux et femmes-juments chez Xénophon
Mathilde Skoie, The role of the herd in Virgil’s Eclogues – ‘nec te paeniteat pecoris’
Marianne Wifstrand Schiebe, Sheep and cattle as ideological markers in Roman poetry
Anna Ivarsdotter, And the cattle follow her, for they know their voice… On communication between women and cattle in Scandinavian pastures
Susanne Rosenberg & Sven Ahlbäck, Kulning – herding calls from Sweden
Ideology and status, ritual and social organization
Kristina Berggren, When the rest of the world thought male ibex, why did the people of San Giovenale think female sheep?
Kristina Jennbert, Sheep and goats in Norse paganism
Anne-Sofie Gräslund, Dogs in graves – a question of symbolism?
Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr., Man’s best friend? The changing role of the dog in Greek society
Eleanor Loughlin, The calf in Bronze Age Cretan art and society
Cécile Michel, The perdum-mule, a mount for distinguished persons in Mesopotamia during the first half of the second millennium BC
Massimo Cultraro, Food for the gods: animal consumption and ritual activities in the Early Bronze Age Sicily
Richard Holmgren, “Money on the hoof”. The astragalus bone – religion, gaming and primitive money
Maria Petersson, Animal husbandry and social hierarchies in Östergötland in the Pre Roman Iron Age
Jutta Stroszeck, Divine protection for shepherd and sheep: Apollon, Hermes, Pan and their Christian counterparts St. Mamas, St. Themistocles and St. Modestos
Anneli Sundkvist, Herding horses: a model of prehistoric horsemanship in Scandinavia – and elsewhere?
Poster session (non-thematic)
Arja Karivieri , The pastoral landscape of Paliambela in Arethousa, northern Greece – from antiquity to modern times
Nenad Petrovic, The significance of Mycenaean animal figurines abroad
Ann-Louise Schallin, Presenting the various types of terracotta bovine figurines from Late Bronze Age Asine
Raffaele Santillo, L’uomo delle stelle: per non dimenticare
Martin Söderlind, Man and animal in antiquity: votive figures in central Italy from the 4th to 1st centuries BC
Ingela M.B. Wiman, Who let the animals out? Changing modes in Etruscan mirror decoration