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SPEAKING ANIMALS IN ANCIENT LITERATURE GEBUNDEN

In the literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity  speaking animals are most prominent in fables  but
in fact they are a genre-crossing phenomenon. Ancient traditions of animal speech continue to
have an effect on European literature up to the present day and at the same time have parallels
in other early civilizations like Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.In the 21 contributions of this
interdisciplinary conference volume  international researchers from the fields of Classical
Philology  Ancient History  Egyptology  Ancient Oriental Studies  Theology and Jewish Studies
explore animal speech in ancient texts from the very beginnings to late antiquity  including
their reception. Contexts relating to literary  intellectual  cultural and social history are
considered as well as concepts of animality and humanity  building a bridge to the more
recently established Human-Animal Studies.

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