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"The 25 chapters are based on papers presented at a conference and investigate how the line between man and beast was drawn and redrawn, investigated, challenged and occasionally crossed in a number of ancient texts and contexts [...] [This volume] illustrates how the question of the animal resonates beyond the confines of the philosophical debate."
Von: Julia Kindt, University of Sydney
In: Journal of Hellenic Studies 137 (2017) 213-225
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"The present book originated in a symposium held at the University of Rostock, Germany, in 2005. Subject is the relationship between man and animal in antiquity, a theme explored in 25 papers. Typical subjects discussed are: Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, and the Stoics on animals; hunting practices; animal sacrifice; animal imagery in political writings; imaginary animals; hybrid beings that combine animal and human traits; the Egyptian veneration of animals (or deities in animal form); animals in ancient art. [...] [T]his is a good scholarly resource, to be praised for the English abstract that accompanies each papaer."
In: International Review of Biblical Studies. 56 (2009) 10. No. 1383
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These conference proceedings explore the encounter of human and animal nature from a philological, historical and archaeological perspective in areas such as the body, myth, religion and cult, politics and philosophy. Ancient texts and images present a broad variety of approaches to the question of how, if at all, to define the boundaries between both species. At the same time it becomes evident, how strongly the conception of both humans and animals were shaped by anthropomorphism, so that a distinction between both is in the end impossible.
