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'This book is much more than a well-documented and innovative insight into Greek and Latin traditional narratives of music and metamorphosis in Roman Imperial age. It is the first 'posthumanist' comprehensive review into the deep meanings of musicking between human and non-human animals, the smartest invitation to find new ways of thinking of sound and music in Antiquity, beyond anthropocentrism. A perspective we just can't miss, today!' Donatella Restani, Univesity of Bologna '… all texts and topics are supported by introductions and contextualization which make it a suitable book for classicists and scholars interested in the array of topics ranging from myth to history of culture, from aetiology to animal studies.' Flaminia Beneventano della Corte, Greek and Roman Musical Studies '… a provocative, lively, far-reaching, and jam-packed book.' Sarah Nooter, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 'The book presents an original and stimulating study on the myths of metamorphosis in relation to music, soundscapes and acoustic phenomena.' Sara Troiani, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica

'This book is much more than a well-documented and innovative insight into Greek and Latin traditional narratives of music and metamorphosis in Roman Imperial age. It is the first 'posthumanist' comprehensive review into the deep meanings of musicking between human and non-human animals, the smartest invitation to find new ways of thinking of sound and music in Antiquity, beyond anthropocentrism. A perspective we just can't miss, today!' Donatella Restani, Univesity of Bologna '… all texts and topics are supported by introductions and contextualization which make it a suitable book for classicists and scholars interested in the array of topics ranging from myth to history of culture, from aetiology to animal studies.' Flaminia Beneventano della Corte, Greek and Roman Musical Studies '… a provocative, lively, far-reaching, and jam-packed book.' Sarah Nooter, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'This book is much more than a well-documented and innovative insight into Greek and Latin traditional narratives of music and metamorphosis in Roman Imperial age. It is the first 'posthumanist' comprehensive review into the deep meanings of musicking between human and non-human animals, the smartest invitation to find new ways of thinking of sound and music in Antiquity, beyond anthropocentrism. A perspective we just can't miss, today!' Donatella Restani, Univesity of Bologna

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Pauline A. LeVen is an Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. She is the author of The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry (Cambridge, 2014), which received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Yale College Prize for outstanding publication. She is also co-editor, with Sean Gurd, of the first volume of A Cultural History of Western Music (forthcoming) and currently at work on two monographs – one entitled Poetry and the Posthuman, the other devoted to music and mortality. A member of MOISA (the Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage), she has taken an active role in promoting and disseminating the study of ancient Greek and Roman musical culture.

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