Bücher von Australian National University

After living with Mongolian herding families, Natasha Fijn has observed through firsthand experience both sides of the human-animal relationship. Examining their reciprocal social behavior and communication, she demonstrates how herd animals influence Mongolian herders' lives and how the animals themselves are active partners in the domestication process.

Argues that a profound engagement with Hesiod is central to Ovid's poetic world. An important contribution to the study of Ovid and the wider poetry of the Augustan age and an excellent case study in how the reception of previous traditions can become the driving force of poetic creation.