Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from
the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new …

Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins
McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an important, positive role in Plato's …

Names: Kindt, Julia, 1975-editor. Title: Animals in ancient Greek religion/edited by Julia
Kindt. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.| Includes …

Scholars dealing with Socrates' physiognomy face a number of crucial issues: Through
which medium was Socrates first portrayed? 1 Were his physical traits first described …

Bevor man sich der antiken Tierethik aus einer moralphilosophischen Perspektive
zuwenden kann, sollte man sich einige allgemeine kulturhistorische Fakten vor Augen …

This article examines the representation of animals in the drama series Chernobyl (2019). In
doing so it evidences anthropocentric narrative; that is, story-telling in which the prioritisation …

Humans favor and venerate their ingroups, while disregarding outgroups to the degree of
dehumanizing them. We explore the social construction of such boundaries and its …

The Anthropocene must also be seen as the convergence of the historicization of nature and
human historicity, not simply metaphorically, but factually. As historical time is injected in …

This book analyses animal creativity in order to unsettle the dominant assumptions that
underpin current ideas of authorship and ownership in intellectual property. Drawing upon …

Until recently, scientists believed snakes to have little spatial ability. However, new
behavioural experiments have proven that snakes display a capacity for spatial learning …