Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 451 pages)
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780191022715
Content:
Birds played an important role in the ancient world: as indicators of time, weather, and seasons; as a resource for hunting, medicine, and farming; as pets and entertainment; as omens and messengers of the gods. Jeremy Mynott explores the similarities and surprising differences between ancient perceptions of the natural world and our own
Content:
Cover -- Birds in the Ancient World -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes for Readers -- List of Illustrations -- Timeline -- Maps of the Classical World in the First Century AD -- Greece, Rome, and the Aegean -- Part 1. Birds in the Natural World -- Introduction -- 1. The Seasons -- 2. Weather -- 3. Time -- 4. Soundscapes -- Part 2. Birds as a Resource -- Introduction -- 5. Hunting and Fowling -- 6. Cooking and Eating -- 7. Farming -- Part 3. Living with Birds -- Introduction -- 8. Captivity and Domestication -- 9. Sports and enterainments -- 10. Relationships and Responsibilities -- Part 4. Invention and Discovery -- Introduction -- 11. Wonders -- 12. Medicine -- 13. Observation and Enquiry -- Part 5. Thinking with Birds -- Introduction -- 14. Omens and Auguries -- 15. Magic and Metamorphosis -- 16. Signs and Symbols -- Part 6. Birds as Intermediaries -- Introduction -- 17. Fabulous Creatures -- 18. Messengers and Mediators -- 19. Mother Erath -- 20. Epilogue -- Appendix: Some Bird Lists from Ancient Sources -- Biographies of Authors Quotes -- Endnotes -- Part 1. Birds In The Natural World -- Epigraphs -- Introduction -- 1. The Seasons -- 2. Weather -- 3. Time -- 4. Soundscapes -- Part 2. Birds As A Resource -- Introduction -- 5. Hunting and Fowling -- 6. Cooking and Eating -- 7. Farming -- PART 3. LIVING WITH BIRDS -- Introduction -- 8. Captivity and Domestication -- 9. Sports and entertainments -- 10. Relationships and Responsibilities -- PART 4. INVENTION AND DISCOVERY -- 11. Wonders -- 12. Medicine -- 13. Observation and Enquiry -- PART 5. THINKING WITH BIRDS -- Introduction -- 14. Omens and Auguries -- 15. Magic and Metamorphosis -- 16. Signs and Symbols -- PART 6. BIRDS AS INTERMEDIARIES -- 17. Fabulous Creatures -- 18. Messengers and Mediators -- 19. Mother Earth -- 20. Epilogue -- Appendix -- Bibliography
Content:
Picture Credits -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Index of Birds -- Genearl Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198713654
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198853114
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mynott, Jeremy Birds in the ancient world Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780198713654
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198853114
Language:
English
Keywords:
Altertum
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Vögel
;
Vögel
;
Römisches Reich
;
Vögel
;
Griechenland
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