Titlebook: Animals in the Classical World; Ethical Perspectives Alastair Harden Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limit

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Animals and Public Entertainment sponsored use of animals for entertainment had a long history before Rome, dating in the Classical tradition from the Hellenistic period: we have seen Ptolemy II Philadelphus patronizing exotic hunts (see Chapter 11), and a spectacular account of a procession held by him in around 279 BC is preserv

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The Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates,f the ., which directly occupies much of its content, makes the following description of a past provident land overflowing with fruit particularly poignant, and there is no specific mention here of the animal husbandry or draught animals which occupy the life of Hesiod’s farmer elsewhere in the poem.

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John Bates Clark: The Religious Imperativet seems likely that vivisection was widespread, and the promotion of vivisection by seventeenth- century doctors and philosophers including Descartes probably offers a parallel for the sort of intellectual and ethical boundaries of their ancient counterparts.

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Animal Study and Experimentationt seems likely that vivisection was widespread, and the promotion of vivisection by seventeenth- century doctors and philosophers including Descartes probably offers a parallel for the sort of intellectual and ethical boundaries of their ancient counterparts.

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Introduction an unwitting spokesman and byword in the centuries-long struggle to place non-human animals within the moral register of human beings. Buried in the corpus of Classical literature there is a diverse and enlightening narrative of man’s opinions of animals and a history of man’s interaction with the

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Animal Origins, Minds and Capacities Presocratic philosophers attempted some scientific explanations of the origins of the various species, from Anaximander in the early sixth century BC (with his puzzling but prescient statement that men owe their origins to fish). to the fifth-century Archelaus’s two-stage view on the emergence of s

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Animal Justice and Moralscts of the relationship between humans and animals in agrarian and pastoral societies left a significant impression on Classical literature (and is closely related to the use of animals in sacrificial ritual). One of the earliest explicit distinctions between men and animals found in Greek literatur

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The Ancient Idea of Vegetarianism which lead to these dietary choices have some broad antecedents in ancient literature (as do the negative stereotypes: see the passage of Euripides’s . below, §52); the arguments of Porphyry in particular prefigure many modern arguments against eating meat. Meat eating was generally associated with