Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

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. 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. Edited By Thorsten Fögen And Edmund Thomas. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. In English.