Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity /

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity / / Thorsten Fögen, Edmund Thomas.

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The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belonging to the same structures, ‘networks’ and commu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
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Fögen, Thorsten,
Thomas, Edmund,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 498 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Introduction
  • A Lifetime Together? Temporal Perspectives on Animal-Human Interactions
  • Greek and Latin Words for Human-Animal Bonds: Metaphors and Taboos
  • Pet and Image in the Greek World: The Use of Domesticated Animals in Human Interaction
  • Lives in Interaction: Animal ‘Biographies’ in Graeco-Roman Literature?
  • Philosophers’ Pets: Porphyry’s Partridge and Augustine’s Dog
  • Psychological, Cognitive and Philosophical Aspects of Animal ‘Envy’ Towards Humans in Theophrastus and Beyond
  • “Animal Literacy” and the Greeks: Philoctetes the Hedgehog and Dolon the Weasel Kenneth F. Kitchell “Animal Literacy”
  • Cultured Animals and Wild Humans? Talking with the Animals in Aristophanes’ Wasps
  • Human-Animal Interactions in Plutarch as Commentary on Human Moral Failings
  • Fish or Man, Babylonian or Greek? Oannes between Cultures
  • Fighting Animals: An Analysis of the Intersections between Human Self and Animal Otherness on Attic Vases
  • Keeping and Displaying Royal Tribute Animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East
  • Urban Geographies of Human-Animal Relations in Classical Antiquity
  • ‘Wild Men’ and Animal Skins in Archaic Greek Imagery
  • Galen on the Relationship between Human Beings and Fish
  • Why Avoid a Monkey: The Refusal of Interaction in Galen’s Epideixis
  • Animals in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: A Select Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Indices

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