Animals in the Greek and Roman World
Chairs: Sarah Hitch (Bristol) and Chiara Thumiger (UCL)
To form a conference panel at the sixth Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh, 28-31 July
2010.From Homeric similes to recipes for fishcakes, descriptions and discussions of animals abound in
ancient sources in a variety of ways. This panel seeks to explore the multifarious roles of animals
in ancient imagination and culture, including:ANIMALS AND THE IMAGINATION
- literature and drama: imagery and exempla; performative aspects
- iconography: contexts and styles of representation
- myth and folktale: animals, metamorphosis and animal-related mirabiliaDEFINING ANIMALS AND HUMANS
- animals in philosophy
- animals in biological and medical treatisesANIMALS AND MATERIAL CULTURE
- diet, cuisine and culinary practices
- agricultural labour and husbandry
- animals as spectacle (games and sports, zoos, the Roman arena…)
- hunting and similar activities
- animals in warfare
- pets
- uses of animals in curative practicesANIMALS AND RELIGION
- animals as gifts to the gods
- the association of animals with individual cults
- animals as intermediaries between man and god (e.g. prophecy, dreams, haruspicy)
- theriomorphismWe welcome proposals for a 20 minute paper on any of the above (or related topics). Please send abstracts of a maximum of 300 words by the 10th of October, 2009 to clssh AT bristol.ac.uk or c.thumiger AT ucl.ac.uk.
Sarah Hitch and Chiara Thumiger
Τακτική επισκόπηση ειδήσεων σχετικών με τις βιβλικές σπουδές και τον αρχέγονο Χριστιανισμό
Σάββατο 22 Αυγούστου 2009
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