Speaking Animals in Ancient Literature

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In the literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity, speaking animals are most prominent in fables, but in fact they are a genre-crossing phenomenon. Ancient traditions of animal speech continue to have an effect on European literature up to the present day and at the same time have parallels in other early civilizations like Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the 21 contributions of this interdisciplinary conference volume, international researchers from the fields of Classical Philology, Ancient History, Egyptology, Ancient Oriental Studies, Theology and Jewish Studies explore animal speech in ancient texts from the very beginnings to late antiquity, including their reception. Contexts relating to literary, intellectual, cultural and social history are considered as well as concepts of animality and humanity, building a bridge to the more recently established Human-Animal Studies.

Author(s): Hedwig Schmalzgruber
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Year: 2020

Language: German
Pages: 619
City: Heidelberg

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Titel
Impressum
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Vorwort
I Hedwig Schmalzgruber: Einführung
II Sprechende Tiere in der griechisch-römischen Antike
TIERREDE ALS LITERARISCHES MITTEL
Ines Silva: Is a Praying Fox a Humanised Animal or a Human in an Animal Body? A Cognitive Reading of Archilochus’ Fox and Eagle Epode (frr. 172–181W)
Ursula Gärtner: ‚Sua tamen sollertia‘ – ‚Reden von Tieren‘ bei Phaedrus
Sonia Pertsinidis: Articulate Animals in the Fables of Babrius
Hedwig Schmalzgruber: ‚Verbis certare volucres […] fecimus‘: Tierrede in Avians Fabeln
Stefan Feddern: Der allegorische und der fiktionale Charakter der Fabel und der Bibel im Urteil des Augustinus
Babette Pütz: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Speaking Animals in Aristophanes’ Comedy
Kenneth S. Rothwell Jr.: The Animal Voices of Greek Comic Choruses
Nina Mindt: Rede toter Tiere. Tierrede in antiken Epigrammen und im ‚Culex‘
Sandro La Barbera: ‚At mea diffusas rapiuntur dicta per auras!‘ The Weight of a Mosquito’s Words in the Pseudo-Vergilian ‚Culex‘
Niall W. Slater: Animal Speech and Animal Silence in the World of Apuleiusʼs ‚Golden Ass‘
Morgane Cariou: Prosopopoeia in Didactic Poetry
Angela Pabst: Wenn die Tiere reden könnten – Vom ‚Logos‘-Gebrauch der Wesen ohne ‚logos‘ bei Plutarch
Émeline Marquis: Philosophy in the Farmyard: The Speaking Cock in Lucian’s ‚Gallus sive Somnium‘
Susanna Fischer: Sprechende Schweine im Kontext der Saturnalien in der Spätantike: Symphosiusʼ ‚Aenigmata‘ und das ‚Testamentum porcelli‘
TIERREDE ALS ÜBERNATÜRLICHES PHÄNOMEN
Marco Vespa: Presentifying the Divine in Ancient Greek Tales: Human Voices in Animal Bodies
Janet E. Spittler: How Do Animals Talk to Christians? Animals in the ‚Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles‘ and the ‚Physiologus‘
IMITATION MENSCHLICHER REDE DURCH REALE TIERE
Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.: Talking Birds and Sobbing Hyenas: Imitative Human Speech in Ancient Animals
III Jenseits der griechisch-römischen Antike: Sprechende Tiere in anderen Kulturen des Altertums
Angela McDonald: The Evolution of the Animal Voice in the Egyptian New Kingdom
Daniel Vorpahl: A Donkey That Speaks Is a Donkey No Less: Talking Animals in the Hebrew Bible and Its Early Jewish Reception
David Hodgkinson: Jaṭāyus, the King of the Vultures: A Comparative Study of the Function of Non-Human Speech in the ‚Rāmāyaṇa‘ and Homeric Tradition
IV Jenseits der griechisch-römischen Antike: Sprechende Tiere in einem „neu-altgriechischen“ Epos aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
Thomas Gärtner: Tierische Kampfansage. Die Paränesen der Mäusekämpfer in der ‚Anthropomyomachie‘ des Eduard Eyth (1840) vor dem Hintergrund der späthellenistischen ‚Batrachomyomachie‘
V Verzeichnis der Beiträger*innen
VI Indices
Index locorum (in Auswahl)
Index animalium (in Auswahl)
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