ABSTRACT
'Entanglement' is, in fact, a useful way of analysing the triad of human, animal, and divine in ancient Greek religion. Recognising this 'entanglement' has become easier because, if the last generation witnessed a 'spatial turn', it is equally plausible to speak now of an 'animal turn'. It is a philosophical shift that, the politics of animal liberation aside, has proved productive in a number of areas. Sympathetic magic, for example, encouraged bringing the gods closer into human proximity by rendering the divine and mysterious into something familiar in the shape of an animal. Similarly, animals often played conspicuous roles in conveying messages from the divine to the human: the king of the Molossians had a pet monkey that knocked over the urn in which lots were held when the Spartans consulted Dodona before Leuktra. The priestess interpreted this as a sign of the impending disaster.
