The Culture of Animals in Antiquity: A Sourcebook with Commentaries

ISBN-13: 9780367580940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 768 str.

Sian Lewis; Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Opis

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly-presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known and others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals o

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Taxonomies: making sense of animals

2. Domestic animals

a) Mammals

ox; goat; sheep; pig; horse; donkey/mule; camel; dog; weasel; cat; human

b) Birds

goose; duck; chicken; dove/pigeon; quail; parrot; peacock; pheasant

c) Insects

bee

3. Wild animals

a) Mammals

deer/antelope; gazelle; bear; lion; leopard; jackal; hyena; wolf; fox; badger; mole; hare/rabbit; hedgehog; mongoose; rat; mouse; bat; seal; dolphin; whale; aurochs; elk; elephant; hippopotamus; rhinoceros; giraffe; cheetah; tiger; monkey

b) Birds

crow/raven; sparrow; nightingale; owl; falcon/hawk; eagle; vulture; crane/stork; swan; water birds; hoopoe; ostrich

c) Reptiles and amphibians

crocodile; tortoise/turtle; frog/toad; lizard; snake

d) Insects and molluscs

ant; cricket/cicada; locust; scorpion; scarab beetle; spider; fly; butterfly/moth; flea; louse; weevil; snail

e) Marine creatures

fish; shark; octopus; crab; oyster; murex

4. Working animals

agriculture; transport; performing animals; hunting; warfare

5. Pets

dogs; cats; primates; other mammals; birds; reptiles and insects

6. Sport

entertainment; animal fights; hunting

Index animalium

Index of classical authors

O autorze

Sian Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches Greek and Roman history, historiography and art. She specialises in Greek political and social history of the classical period. Her publications include News and Society in the Greek Polis (1996), Greek Tyranny (2010) and two collections of essays, Ancient Tyranny (2006) and Tyranny: New Contexts (2016). She has also written extensively on Greek gender and iconography, including The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook (2002) and (as co-editor) The World of Greek Vases (2010). She is currently editing the Antiquity volume of Bloomsbury’s Cultural History of the Media, and developing a project to study animal lives in the classical world.

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University. His research focuses on the Persian Empire, Achaemenid monarchy and the Persian court as well as Greek socio-cultural history, ancient gender and Hellenistic civilisation. He is the author of Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece (2003), King and Court in Ancient Persia (2013), the co-author of Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (2010), and the editor of volumes on Greek historiography, ancient dress and gender, and the co-editor of Creating a Hellenistic World (2010) and the forthcoming The Hellenistic Court. He is the Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia, and the Series Co-Editor of Screening Antiquity. He is currently co-authoring a book on Ptolemaic queens and a monograph, Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World.