Le Taureau. Une histoire culturelle. Catalogue Documents and works published under

Documents and works published under the direction of Jean Przyluski

Patricia Glave

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

This is what prompted him to travel to Japan in 1952

Le Taureau. Une histoire culturelle. Catalogue Documents and works published underDomesticated 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