Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Author： Fögen Thorsten;Thomas Edmund  

Publisher： De Gruyter‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9783110545623

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110544169

Subject： K1 World History

Keyword： 世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

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 communities or at least from finding themselves together in a certain setting, context or environment – wittingly or unwittingly. Papers explore the concrete categories of interaction between animals and humans that can be identified, in what contexts they occur, and what types of evidence can be productively used to examine the concept of interactions. Articles in this volume take into account literary, visual, and other types of evidence. A comprehensive research bibliography is also provided.

Chapter

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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