Among all monstrous races living in far away lands, cynocephali have a conspicuous place in the European imagination thanks to their privileged relation to language. Already in ancient Greece, canine-humans represented the mythical intermediates between the human word and the animal cry. This tradition developed in two different directions. On the one hand, medieval Christianity (also influenced by Mongol and Chinese legends) promoted the view that the inhabitants of the remote borders of earth were ...
Tópico(s): Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
2007 - Universidad de Los Andes | Revista de Estudios Sociales
Tópico(s): Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
2010 - Complutense University of Madrid | Anales de Historia del Arte
... la jerarquía del poder. El primer capítulo, "Monstruos, cinocéfalos y caníbales," evidencia la prevalencia de una concepción ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
2013 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Hispanófila/Hispanófila
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Guilherme de Figueiredo Cavalheri,
... representado em sua hagiografia grega como um soldado cinocéfalo, que se converte ao cristianismo e é martirizado. ...
Tópico(s): Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books
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