Szerkesztette: Derek B. Counts, Bettina Arnold Archaeolingua, 2010 Old World
iconography from the Upper Paleolithic to the Christian era consistently
features symbolic representations of both female and male protagonists in confl
ict with, accompanied by or transmuted partly or completely into, animals.
Adversarial relationships are made explicit through hunting and sacrifi ce
scenes, including heraldic compositions featuring a central fi gure grasping
beasts arrayed on either side, while more implicit expressions are manifested in
zoomorphic attributes (horns, headdresses, skins, etc.) and composite or hybrid
fi gures that blend animal and human elements into a single image. While the
so-called Mistress of Animals has attracted signifi cant scholarly attention,
her male counterpart, the Master of Animals, so far has not been accorded a
correspondingly comprehensive synthetic study. In an effort to fi ll this gap in
scholarship, The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography assembles
archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence for the Master of Animals
from a variety of cultural contexts and disparate chronological horizons
throughout the Old World, with a particular focus on Europe and the
Mediterranean basin as well as the Indus Valley and Eurasia. The volume does not
seek to demonstrate relatedness between different manifestations of this fi
gure, even though some are clearly ontologically and geographically linked, but
rather to interpret the role of this iconographic construct within each cultural
context. In doing so, The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography provides an
important resource for scholars confronting similar symbolic paradigms across
the Old World landscape that foregrounds comparative interpretation in diverse
ritual and socio-political environments. A kötet adatai: Nyelv: angol Kötés:
keménytábla Megjelenés éve: 2010 Terjedelem: 262 oldal Tartalomjegyzék: BETTINA
ARNOLD ? DEREK B. COUNTS: Prolegomenon: The Many Masks of the Master of Animals
SARAH COSTELLO: The Mesopotamian ?Nude Hero?: Context and Interpretations
JONATHAN MARK KENOYER: Master of Animals and Animal Masters in the Iconography
of the Indus Tradition BILLIE JEAN COLLINS: Animal Mastery in Hittite Art and
Texts JANICE L. CROWLEY: The Aegean Master of Animals: The Evidence of the
Seals, Signets and Sealings ANNA SIMANDIRAKI-GRIMSHAW: Minoan Animal-Human
Hybridity LOUISE A. HITCHCOCK: The Big Nowhere: A Master of Animals in the
Throne Room at Knossos? SUSAN LANGDON: Where the Wild Things Were: The Greek
Master of Animals in Ecological Perspective DEREK B. COUNTS:Divine Symbols and
Royal Aspirations: The Master of Animals in Iron Age Cypriote Religion MARK
GARRISON: The Heroic Encounter in the Visual Arts of Ancient Iraq and Iran ca.
1000?500 BC BRYAN K. HANKS: Agency, Hybridity, and Transmutation: Human-Animal
Symbolism and Mastery among Early Eurasian Steppe Societies BETTINA ARNOLD:
Beasts of the Forest and Beasts of the Field: Animal Sacrifi ce, Hunting
Symbolism, and the Master of Animals in Pre-Roman Iron Age Europe ANTHONY TUCK:
Mistress and Master: The Politics of Iconography in Pre-Roman Central Italy
MARTIN GUGGISBERG: The Mistress of Animals, the Master of Animals: Two
Complementary or Oppositional Religious Concepts in Early Celtic Art? PETER S.
WELLS: Meaning in Motif and Ornament: The Face Between the Creatures in
Mid-First-Millennium AD Temperate Europe.