Although reasoned discourse on human-animal relations is often considered a late twentieth-century phenomenon, ethical debate over animals and how humans ...

This groundbreaking volume explores Plutarch's unique survival in the argument that animals are rational and sentient, and that we, as humans, must take ...

This volume offers a new translation of Plutarch's three treatises on animals- On the Cleverness of Animals , Whether Beasts Are Rational , and On Eating ...