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Cruelty and Sentimentality: Greek Attitudes to Animals, 600-300 BC

Louise Calder 2011 © BAR Publishing
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This study examines Greek archaeological and literary evidence between 600 and 300 BC, to discover how ancient Greeks regarded, interacted with, used, and treated tame and domestic animals. Also included are some of the more frequently encountered wild pest species, selected on the basis of their appearance in art and literature. Of primary interest are relationships between human and animal well-being. One of the significant problems in studying ancient Greece is that surviving literary and artistic evidence strongly emphasises élite values and activities, leaving the commonplace relatively untreated. The purpose of this work is to attempt recovery of ordinary, everyday human-animal relationships, to enhance our understanding of animals' fundamental social and practical roles in ancient Greece. Thus the focus is not the depiction of animals as art, or narratives about them, but literary evidence, artefacts, and animal remains as historical records, revealing a Greek social history of human-animal relationships. To discuss the entirety of human-animal interactions in the ancient Greek world would require numerous volumes. Some limitation is necessary. This has been achieved by investigating only chosen themes, and by biological class and species exclusions. It is hoped that this will allow the presentation of an adequately representative analysis, taking into account a sufficient sample of creatures.
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  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR International Series pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407307831 (paperback)
  • 9781407337784 (ebook)
BAR Number
  • S2225
Subject
  • Bronze Age and Iron Age
  • Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
  • Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
  • Classical and Hellenistic
  • Theory and Method (general titles)
  • Food and Drink / Diet
  • Epigraphy / Ancient and Medieval Texts / Papyri
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Frontispiece
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Animals in human space
  • 2. Sheep and goats
  • 3. Draught and burden animals
  • 4. Friend or foe? Pests and animal allies
  • 5. Pet and Image
  • 6. Philosophy, ethics, morality, and the treatment of animals
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations and bibliography
  • Catalogue
  • Plates
  • Index
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