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Man kann dem Verfasser nur zu dieser Ausgabe gratulieren, die neben einer flussig lesbaren UEbersetzung in wohltuender Knappheit und ansprechender Form alle wichtigen zoologischen und philosophischen Informationen aus Antike und Moderne in Bezug auf die Mensch-Tier-Beziehung prazise auf den Punkt bringt und deshalb gewiss fur lange Zeit der Standardkommentar fur die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit diesen drei beruhmten Traktaten Plutarchs unter dem Aspekt der Human-animal studies bleiben wird. - Bryn Mawr Classical Review [One can only congratulate the author on this edition, which, in addition to a fluently readable translation in a pleasantly concise and appealing form, brings all the important zoological and philosophical information from antiquity and the present in relation to human-animal relations precisely to the point. It will certainly remain the standard commentary for the scientific study of these three famous treatises by Plutarch from the point of view of human-animal studies for a long time.]

Man kann dem Verfasser nur zu dieser Ausgabe gratulieren, die neben einer flussig lesbaren UEbersetzung in wohltuender Knappheit und ansprechender Form alle wichtigen zoologischen und philosophischen Informationen aus Antike und Moderne in Bezug auf die Mensch-Tier-Beziehung prazise auf den Punkt bringt und deshalb gewiss fur lange Zeit der Standardkommentar fur die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit diesen drei beruhmten Traktaten Plutarchs unter dem Aspekt der Human-animal studies bleiben wird. - Bryn Mawr Classical Review [One can only congratulate the author on this edition, which, in addition to a fluently readable translation in a pleasantly concise and appealing form, brings all the important zoological and philosophical information from antiquity and the present in relation to human-animal relations precisely to the point. It will certainly remain the standard commentary for the scientific study of these three famous treatises by Plutarch from the point of view of human-animal studies for a long time.]

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Stephen T. Newmyer is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA. He has published extensively on classical views on the intellectual and emotional dimensions of non-human animals, and is the author of Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics (Routledge, 2006), Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2011) and The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought: The ‘Man Alone of Animals’ Concept (Routledge, 2017).

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