Animals and Us: Human-Animal relationships in the ancient world Saturday February 23, 2019
Programme
Gordon Campbell (Maynooth University)
Ideas of Human-Animal Communication in the Early Greek Philosophers Pythagoras and Empedocles
Ashley Clements (Trinity College Dublin)
Horsing around in the Americas and the elephant in the satirist’s room: Montaigne’s Of Cannibals and the myth of the New World centaur
Jessica Doyle (University College Dublin)
The hunted animal in Early Iron Age Greek art
Hazel Dodge (Trinity College Dublin)
A rhino, a hippo and an ostrich go to Rome ... exotic animals in Roman Spectacle
Kathryn Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)
Parading Pachyderms: A Roman's guide to building an elephant army
Christine Morris (Trinity College Dublin)
From classical beasts to Heaney’s ‘lost ark’: the power of animals on coinageSimone Zimmerman (Trinity College Dublin)
Little midwives: Votive weasels as likely indicators of a female healing tradition in prehistoric Crete.
Pre-booking essential
Contact: Christine Morris - cmorris@tcd.ie Or Natalie Lough - natlough@gmail.com
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