Title Birds in the ancient world from A to Z / W. Geoffrey Arnott

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations Series The ancient world from A to Z Ancient world from A to Z. Contents BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; X; Z; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF ENGLISH BIRD NAMES Summary Ancient Birds from A to Z gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies. The ancient Greek bird names are transliterated into English script, and all that the ancients said about birds is presented in English. This book is accordingly the first complete discussion of ancient bird names that will be accessible to readers without ancient Greek. The only large-scale examination of ancient birds for sev Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-283) and index Notes English and Ancient Greek Print version record Subject Birds -- Nomenclature (Popular) -- Dictionaries -- Greek Birds -- Greece -- Nomenclature (Popular) -- Dictionaries Greek language -- Dictionaries -- English English language -- Dictionaries -- Greek NATURE -- Animals -- Birds. NATURE -- Birdwatching Guides. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ornithology. Birds English language Greek language Greece Genre/Form dictionaries. polyglot dictionaries. Dictionaries Dictionaries. Multilingual dictionaries. Dictionnaires. Dictionnaires multilingues. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203946626 0203946626

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