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Author Kindt, Julia, 1975- author.

Title The Trojan Horse and other stories : ten ancient creatures that make us human / Julia Kindt
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Summary What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human has a much longer and more venerable history. In the West, it goes all the way back to classical antiquity. This grippingly written and provocative book boldly reveals how the ancient world mobilized concepts of 'the animal' and 'animality' to conceive of the human in a variety of illuminating ways. Through ten stories about marvellous mythical beings -- from the Trojan Horse to the Cyclops, and from Androcles' lion to the Minotaur -- Julia Kindt unlocks fresh ways of thinking about humanity that extend from antiquity to the present and that ultimately challenge our understanding of who we really are
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2023)
Subject Animals -- Mythology -- Greece
Animals, Mythical -- Greece
Animals and civilization -- History
Mythology, Greek.
Animals and civilization
Animals, Mythical
Animals -- Mythology
Mythology, Greek
Greece
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781009411332
1009411330