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Interactions between animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity /
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'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 ImageryGalen 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.