An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and
Roman writings on animals—and our vital relationships with them
How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages
from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with
them. Drawing on ancient writers from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and
farmer M. D. Usher has gathered a healthy litter of selections that
reveal some of the ways Greeks and Romans thought about everything
from lions, bears, and wolves to birds, octopuses, and snails—and
that might inspire us to rethink our own relationships with our
fellow creatures. Presented in lively new translations, with the
original texts on facing pages, these pieces are filled with
surprises—anticipating but also offering new perspectives on many
of our current feelings and ideas about animals. Here, Porphyry
makes a compelling argument for vegetarianism and asserts that the
just treatment of animals makes us better people; Pliny the Elder
praises the virtuosity of songbirds and the virtuousness of
elephants; Plutarch has one of Circe’s pigs from the Odyssey make
a serio-comic case for the dignity of the beasts of the field;
Aristotle puts the study of animals on par with anthropology; we
read timeless Aesopian fables, including “The Hen That Laid the
Golden Egg” and “The Fox and the Grapes”; and there is much,
much more. A Noah’s Ark of a book, How to Care about Animals is
guaranteed to charm and inspire anyone who loves animals.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Translators: |
M.D. Usher
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| Commentary by: |
M.D. Usher
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| Dimensions: |
171 x 114mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-24043-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-691-24043-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780691240435 |
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