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02182aam a2200337 i 4500 001 9AB4F080223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 230809s2024 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781009411387 (hardcover) 020 $a 1009411381 035 $a (OCoLC)1393076904 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d CQC $d SILO 050 4 $a BL795.A54 $b K56 2024 082 04 $a 292.13 $2 23 100 1 $a Kindt, Julia, $d 1975- $e author. 245 14 $a The Trojan horse and other stories : $b ten ancient creatures that make us human / $c Julia Kindt, The University of Sydney. 260 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2024. 300 $a xiv, 356 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-352) and index. 520 $a 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 mobilised concepts of 'the animal' and 'animality' to conceive of the human in a variety of illuminating ways. Through ten stories about marvelous 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. 650 0 $a Animals $x Mythology $z Greece. 650 0 $a Animals $x Mythology $z Rome. 650 0 $a Animals, Mythical $z Greece. 650 0 $a Trojan horse (Greek mythology) 650 0 $a Mythology, Greek. 650 0 $a Mythology, Roman. 650 0 $a Animals and civilization $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240604014956.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9AB4F080223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search