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HOW TO CARE ABOUT ANIMALS - M D USHER GEBUNDEN

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 selections that reveal some of the ways Greeks and Romans thought about
everything from lions  bears  and wolves to birds  octopuses  and snails--and that might
inspire us to rethink our own relationships with our fellow creatures. Presented in lively new
translations  with the original texts on facing pages  these pieces are filled with
surprises--anticipating but also offering new perspectives on many of our current feelings and
ideas about animals. Here  Porphyry makes a compelling argument for vegetarianism and asserts
that the just treatment of animals makes us better people  Pliny the Elder praises the
virtuosity of songbirds and the virtuousness of elephants  Plutarch has one of Circe's pigs
from the Odyssey make a serio-comic case for the dignity of the beasts of the field  Aristotle
puts the study of animals on par with anthropology  we read timeless Aesopian fables  including
The Hen That Laid the Golden Egg and The Fox and the Grapes  and there is much  much more. A
Noah's Ark of a book  How to Care about Animals is guaranteed to charm and inspire anyone who
loves animals.

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