Research Catalog

Title

Interactions between animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity / edited by Thorsten Fögen and Edmund Thomas.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fögen, Thorsten
• Thomas, Edmund (Edmund V.)

Description

viii, 498 pages : illustations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Human-animal relationships
• Animals and civilization
• Greece
• Rome (Empire)
• Human-animal relationships > Rome > History > To 1500
• History
• To 1500
• Animals and civilization > Rome > History > To 1500
• Animals and civilization > Greece > History > To 1500
• Rome > Antiquities
• Antiquities
• Greece > Antiquities
• Human-animal relationships > Greece > History > To 1500

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / Thorsten Fögen and Edmund Thomas -- A lifetime together? : temporal perspectives on animal-human interactions / Sian Lewis -- Greek and Latin words for human-animal bonds : metaphors and taboos / Cristiana Franco -- Pet and image in the Greek world : the use of domesticated animals in human interaction / Louise Calder -- Lives in Interaction : animal 'biographies' in Graeco-Roman literature? / Thorsten Fögen -- Philosophers' pets : Porphyry's partridge and Augustine's dog / Gillian Clark -- Psychological, cognitive and philosophical aspects of animal 'envy' towards humans in Theophrastus and beyond / Arnaud Zucker --
• "Animal literacy" and the Greeks : Philoctetes the hedgehog and Dolon the Weasel / Kenneth F. Kitchell -- Cultured animals and wild humans? : talking with the animals in Aristophanes' Wasps / Sarah Miles -- Human-animal interactions in Plutarch as commentary on human moral failings / Stephen T. Newmyer -- Fish or man, Babylonian or Greek? : Oannes between cultures / Jeremy McInerney -- Fighting animals : an analysis of the intersections between human self and animal otherness on Attic vases / Claudia Beier -- Keeping and displaying royal tribute animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Urban geographies of human-animal relations in classical antiquity / Edmund Thomas --
• 'Wild Men' and animal skins in Archaic Greek imagery / Alastair Harden -- Galon on the relationship between human beings and fish / John Wilkins -- Why avoid a monkey : the refusal of interaction in Galen's Epideixis / Marco Vespa -- Animals in Graeco-Roman antiquity : a select bibliography / Thorsten Fögen.

Call Number

JFE 17-10446

ISBN

• 3110544164
• 9783110544169

OCLC

973797216

Title

Interactions between animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity / edited by Thorsten Fögen and Edmund Thomas.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Fögen, Thorsten, editor.

Thomas, Edmund (Edmund V.), editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10446