The second edition of Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook offers a detailed introduction to Greco-Roman thought on the intellectual and emotional capacities of non-human animals and on the ethical dimensions of human-non-human animal interactions.
Selections translated from Greek and Roman philosophical, natural scientific, religious, historical and poetic literature, complemented with extensive explanatory commentaries, provide the reader with an appreciation for the depth and breadth of classical speculation on non-human species. Bibliographies updated and augmented for this second edition offer guidance for further study on topics included in the volume. A new feature in this edition is a chapter containing a generous selection of passages that illustrate all sides of the complex ancient debate on whether non-human animals have the cognitive faculties needed for true emotional experiences, a subject at the forefront of current philosophical and scientific debate on animal intellect to which the Greeks and Roman contributed substantially.
This updated and expanded edition remains a critical resource for students and scholars in the areas of classical studies, ancient animal studies, philosophy and ethics, and ancient ecology and environmental issues.
The second edition of Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook offers a detailed introduction to Greco-Roman thought on the intellectual and emotional capacities of non-human animals and on the ethical dimensions of human-non-human animal interactions.
Part I: Animals as Beings;
1. The Intellectual Dimensions of Animals:
Rational or Irrational?;
2. Human-Animal Kinship: Akin or Alien?;
3. The
Emotional Dimensions of Animals: Emotional, Pre-Emotional, or Non-Emotional?;
4. Animal Behaviors; PART II: HumanAnimal Relations;
5. Animals as Moral
Beings;
6. Animals as Offerings: Hunting and Sacrifice;
7. Animals as Sport:
The Arena;
8. Animals as Food: Vegetarianism and Its Opponents;
9. Animals as
Friends: Kindness and Cruelty to Animals
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), The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought: The Man Alone of Animals Concept (Routledge, 2017) and Plutarchs Three Treatises on Animals: A Translation with Introductions and Commentary Routledge, 2021).
