How to care about animals : an ancient guide to creatures great and small
Drawing on ancient writers, from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and working farmer, Mark Usher compiles in this book an anthology of Greco-Roman passages illustrating how they thought about animals and illuminating they might help us to rethink our relationships with them. Not many contemporary readers w...
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| প্রধান লেখক: | |
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| বিন্যাস: | Livre numérique |
| ভাষা: | Anglais Latin Grec ancien |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
| টীকা: |
Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9780691240442.jpg Textes en latin et grec ancien avec la traduction anglaise en regard ; introduction et apparat critique en anglais Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Philosophie |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • How to care about animals, an ancient guide to creatures great and small, Porphyry and friends, 2023, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1 volume (XVI-232 pages), Ancient wisdom for modern readers, 978-0-6912-4043-5 |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | Drawing on ancient writers, from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and working farmer, Mark Usher compiles in this book an anthology of Greco-Roman passages illustrating how they thought about animals and illuminating they might help us to rethink our relationships with them. Not many contemporary readers will know, for example, the compelling arguments the second century AD Greek philosopher Porphyry makes for vegetarianism, long before a plant-based diet began to garner headlines. Plutarch's serio-comic exposition of the rationality and inherent dignity of non-human creatures-put on the lips of one of Circe's pigs-is so fresh that it sounds like it was formulated just yesterday. The knowledge the poet Theognis derived from Greek sponge divers about the behavior of octopods rivals our contemporary fascination with the octopus. Aristotle's introduction to the scientific study of animal morphology and behavior remains unparalleled for its elegance and insight, and it represents one of the first forays into natural history writing. Seneca, employing an ingenious etymological pun on the word animal, endeavors to show that we humans are morally inferior to our animal cousins, who instinctively know and are satisfied with their place in Nature. The Greeks and Romans, amidst all their magnificent cultural achievements and reckless, destructive behavior, lived closer than most of us to the perils and prospects of their environments. This afforded them a sensitivity to their environments and, in particular, to their fellow creatures that can perhaps help to disabuse us of our disconnectedness from animal life. This small volume demonstrates how astoundingly relevant the ancients still are in this regard |
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| উপাদানের বিবরণ: | Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9780691240442.jpg Textes en latin et grec ancien avec la traduction anglaise en regard ; introduction et apparat critique en anglais Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Philosophie |
| গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জী: | Notes bibliographiques |
| আইসবিএন: | 9780691240442 |
| প্রবেশাধিকার: | L'accès en ligne est réservé aux établissements ou bibliothèques ayant souscrit l'abonnement. Cyberlibris |