Call for papers : Animals in the Greek and Roman World

Animals in the Greek and Roman World Conference panel at the sixth Celtic Conference in Classics Date limite : 10 octobre 2009 Chairs: Sarah Hitch (Bristol) and Chiara Thumiger (UCL) To form a conference panel at the sixth Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh, 28-31 July 2010. From Homeric similes to recipes for fishcakes, descriptions and discussions of animals abound in ancient sources in a variety of ways. This panel seeks to explore the multifarious roles of animals in ancient imagina..