Plutarch's Three Treatises on Animals: A Translation with Introductions and Commentary - Paperback

by Stephen T. Newmyer (Author)

This volume offers a new translation of Plutarch's three treatises on animals - On the Cleverness of Animals, Whether Beasts Are Rational, and On Eating Meat - accompanied by introductions and explanatory commentaries.

Author Biography

Stephen T. Newmyer is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA. He has published extensively on classical views on the intellectual and emotional dimensions of non-human animals, and is the author of Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics (Routledge, 2006), Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2011) and The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought: The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept (Routledge, 2017).