How to Care about Animals

An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small

M. D. Usher

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Princeton University Pres
01 January 2024

Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Animals & society; Latin

Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

"""Drawing on ancient writers, from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and working farmer, Mark Usher compiles in this book an anthology of Greco-Roman passages illustrating how they thought about animals and illuminating they might help us to rethink our relationships with them.""--"

Translated with commentary by: M. D. Usher
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 171mm, Width: 114mm,
ISBN: 9780691240435
ISBN 10: 0691240434
Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

M. D. Usher is the Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and a member of the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University of Vermont. With his wife, he also built, owns, and operates Works & Days Farm, which produces lamb, eggs, and maple syrup in Shoreham, Vermont. His books include How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land and How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism (both Princeton).