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.
Author(s): Thorsten Fögen; Edmund Thomas
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 498
City: Berlin
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
