The Power of the Bull
Author:   Michael Rice
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415090322


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   04 December 1997
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Michael Rice
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9780415090322


ISBN 10:   0415090326
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   04 December 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

I: The Origins of the Bull-Cult; 1: The Bull-Cult in the Ancient World; 2: The Nature of the Cult; 3: The Mind of Man; 4: The Bull as Sacrificial Victim; II: The Realm of the Bull; 5: The Bull and the Upper Palaeolithic Hunters; 6: Settlement, Domestication and Urbanization; 7: Catal Hüyük and the Bull in Anatolia; 8: The Bull in Mesopotamia; 9: The Bull In Persia; 10: The Royal and Divine Bull of Egypt; 11: The Bull in the Eastern Mediterranean; 12: Arabia and the ‘Islands of the Bulls'; 13: Crete and the Bull-games; 14: The Bull and Europa; 15: The Bull in Cyprus; III: The Legacy of the Bull; 16: The Bull and the Boys; 17: Man-Bull, Bull-Man; 18: The Bull in Splendour and in Shame

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' An idiosyncratic author who has scored a bull's eye of a book.' - The Glasgow Herald.


Author Information

Michael Rice is well known for his work in the planning and designing of museums throughout the Arabian peninsula. He is also the highly respected author of Egypt's Making (1990), Archaeology of the Arabian Gulf (1994) and Egypt's Legacy (1997).

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