Titlebook: Animals in the Classical World; Ethical Perspectives Alastair Harden Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limit

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Introductionumented period in human (or rather ‘human’) history. The best-known academic attempt to understand the nature of man’s moral relationship with non-human animals is Richard Sorabji’s 1993 ., and for all subsequent scholarship (including the present volume) the book remains a cornerstone in the study

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Animal Origins, Minds and Capacitiesural selection, and it is no coincidence that the theory of common origins came from Empedocles, a philosopher who urged abstention from cruelty and sacrifice (see below, §§148–9), but unfortunately his position attracted continuous criticism throughout the Classical period and, as Gordon Campbell n

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Observing and Imagining Animal Behaviourion, and because of this their animal subjects are credited with a wide range of emotional faculties such as the following example of a lion robbed of his cubs. The context in the . is the aftermath of the death of Patroclus, the emotional crux of the entire poem as it rouses Achilles to re-enter th

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Animals and Warfare accumulation and storage of wealth. Although the narrative of the Trojan War is of one exceptional campaign waged on behalf of a slighted husband whose wife had been abducted, in the Homeric epics which became the bibles of ancient warfare, other stories of cattle plundering are common in tangentia

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The Economic Animal: Farming, Food and Tradel sacrifice itself was a financial gesture as well as just an appropriate offering. The idea of the ‘monetised animal’ abstractly saturates many genres of Classical literature: the major theme of all the texts discussed in Chapters 6 and 8 above is that animals are manifestations of wealth, and even

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Sacrifice and Sacred Animalsell studied, but many ancient texts attest to popular associations between animals and gods, and there is much evidence for the practice of keeping domestic animals in a sanctuary area as the property of a particular god.. Some connections between gods and animals are suggested in a passage of Athen

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Hunting Animalsd even pest control.. The gentlemanly and, above all, privileged dimensions of ancient (and modern) hunting means that it has a strong voice in the surviving literary evidence and was continually studied in the scholarship of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries;. the changing horizons of Clas