Animals in Antiquity

The Rose-Marie Lewent Conference
ANIMALS IN ANTIQUITY
February 14, 2014

Presented by the NYU Center for Ancient Studies in conjunction with the Animal Studies Initiative and the Department of Classics

Thinking with Animals: Hybridity and the Greek Imagination
Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania

Images of Anthropomorphized Animals in Ancient Egyptian Figured Ostraca and Papyri
Jennifer Babcock, NYU Institute of Fine Arts

Tracing Identity through Pig Sacrifice: the Greco-Punic Cult of Demeter at Selinunte
Andrew Farinholt Ward, NYU Institute of Fine Arts

Are Animals Naked? A View from Greek Art
Annetta Alexandridis, Cornell University

Comment
Patricia Johnson, Boston University

Animals in Love: Images from Greek and Latin Literature
Craig Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign