How to Care about Animals
an ancient guide to creatures great and small
$31.85
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2023
Summary
A Classical Bestiary: Ancient Wisdom on Animals and Humanity
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals - and our vital relationships with them.
How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them. Drawing on ancient writers from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and farmer M. D. Usher has gathered a healthy litter of select…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691240435 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691240434 |
| Series: | Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers |
| Author: | Porphyry, Mark D. Usher |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 171mm x 114mm |
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“The book might be small, but it is mighty… [Usher] lives closer than most of us to animals and the land, and his own experiences, interjected throughout the introduction and notes, are valuable and relevant.” * Greece and Rome *
About The Author
Porphyry
M. D. Usher is the Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and a member of the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University of Vermont. With his wife, he also built, owns, and operates Works & Days Farm, which produces lamb, eggs, and maple syrup in Shoreham, Vermont. His books include How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land and How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism.
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