Le Taureau. Une histoire culturelle. Catalogue il a beaucoup guerroyé et

il a beaucoup guerroyé et beaucoup écrit (on le surnommait « l’abeille attique )

Abigail Heyman

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Le Taureau. Une histoire culturelle. Catalogue il a beaucoup guerroyé etDomesticated seven or eight millennia before our era, the bull remained the wildest of domestic animals. It exudes an impression of power, vitality, and fertility, which made it a god for many ancient peoples. Early Christianity waged war against the cults that were held against it and substituted the ox, a peaceful, tranquil, and hardworking animal. Hence a certain eclipse of the bull in European culture for several centuries: it was then limited to