Newmyer - Animals in Greek and Roman thought: a sourcebook

Readings in Late Antiquity:Second Edition, Michael Maas

Greek and Roman Education, Mark Joyal, J.C. Yardley and Iain McDougall

The Republican Roman Army, Michael M. Sage

The Story of Athens, Phillip Harding

Roman Social History, Tim Parkin and Arthur Pomeroy

Death in Ancient Rome, Valerie Hope

Ancient Rome, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland

Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature, Marguerite Johnson and Terry Ryan

Athenian Political Oratory, David Phillips

Pompeii, Alison E. Cooley and M.G.L. Cooley

Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era, Georgia Irby-Massie and Paul Keyser

Women and Law in the Roman Empire, Judith Evans Grubbs

Warfare in Ancient Greece, Michael M. Sage

The Government of the Roman Empire, Barbara Levick

Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee

Ancient Greece:Second Edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland

Ancient Greek Laws, Ilias Arnaoutoglou

Trials from Classical Athens, Christopher Carey

Greek and Roman Technology, John Humphrey, John Oleson and Andrew Sherwood

Roman Italy 388 BCAD 200, Kathryn Lomas

The Roman Army 31 BCAD 337, Brian Campbell

The Roman Household, Jane F. Gardner and Thomas Wiedemann

Athenian Politics, G.R. Stanton

Greek and Roman Slavery, Thomas Wiedemann

Forthcoming:

Ancient Greece:Third Edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland

Ancient City of Rome, Christopher Smith, J.C.N. Coulston, Hazel Dodge

Women of the Ancient Near East, Mark Chavalas

Greek Religion, Emma Stafford and Karen Stears

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Since the rebirth of interest in the relationship between human and non-human animals that coincided, at least in the United States, with the flowering of such social causes as the Civil Rights Movement and Womens Liberation, an extraordinarily rich body of literature has been produced covering virtually every aspect of humananimal interaction. Philosophers, zoologists, environmentalists, and animal activists of every description have argued passionately that non-humans share the faculty of reason that has for millennia been judged by many thinkers to be unique to human beings, that non-human animals therefore deserve to be included in the moral universe of their human counterparts, and that human treatment of animals should change in light of our kinship with non-human species. Others have argued with equal conviction that humans owe nothing to non-humans on the grounds that they have so little in common with human beings as to fall outside the bounds of human moral consideration.

For readers with an interest in the historical antecedents of modern debates on animal issues, a number of anthologies of what their compilers term the classic texts have appeared in recent years. Unfortunately, the term classics is frequently applied in anthologized collections to writings dating predominantly from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with perhaps an occasional excerpt from Descartes and, in some instances, an offering from Thomas Aquinas or even the Old Testament. Greek and Roman classics are either omitted entirely or drastically underrepresented, despite the fact that virtually every subject encompassed in post-classical thought on humananimal relations was treated already in Greco-Roman authors, and that the Aristotelian and Stoic formulations of these arguments were instrumental in shaping much of subsequent thought on the nature of the animal estate.