Stephen T. Newmyer

Plutarch's Three Treatises on Animals

A Translation with Introductions and Commentary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a new translation of Plutarch's three treatises on animals - On the Cleverness of Animals, Whether Beasts Are Rational, and On Eating Meat - accompanied by introductions and explanatory commentaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781138570849
• ISBN-10: 1138570842
• Artikelnr.: 59999142

Autorenporträt

Stephen T. Newmyer is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA. He has published extensively on classical views on the intellectual and emotional dimensions of non-human animals, and is the author of Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics (Routledge, 2006), Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2011) and The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought: The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept (Routledge, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Whether Land or Sea Animals Have More Intelligence, or On the Cleverness of Animals: De sollertia animalium
Introduction
Translation
Whether Beasts Are Rational, or Gryllus: Bruta animalia ratione uti
Introduction
Translation
On Eating Meat: De esu carnium
Introduction
Treatise I: Translation
Treatise II: Translation
Bibliography
Index