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Capitalist Systems and How They Work,nd cattle; birds and fish were also widely caught and eaten (see Chapter 9). From the Hippocratic Corpus, the second of four essays entitled ‘On regimen’ . gives some idea of the range of meats available to the Classical gourmand, listing the digestive qualities of the flesh of cows and veal calves,

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17348-8hin living memory of the Persian wars, Herodotus spends much of his nine-book history describing the geography and people outside the Greek world. His accounts of their treatment of animals — however reliable the details — again tell us as much or more about the sensibilities of the writer’s own soc

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The Religious Content of Economics accumulation and storage of wealth. Although the narrative of the Trojan War is of one exceptional campaign waged on behalf of a slighted husband whose wife had been abducted, in the Homeric epics which became the bibles of ancient warfare, other stories of cattle plundering are common in tangentia

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Frank Knight: Economics versus Religionl sacrifice itself was a financial gesture as well as just an appropriate offering. The idea of the ‘monetised animal’ abstractly saturates many genres of Classical literature: the major theme of all the texts discussed in Chapters 6 and 8 above is that animals are manifestations of wealth, and even

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John Bates Clark: The Religious Imperativeell studied, but many ancient texts attest to popular associations between animals and gods, and there is much evidence for the practice of keeping domestic animals in a sanctuary area as the property of a particular god.. Some connections between gods and animals are suggested in a passage of Athen

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Economics as a Postmodern Discourse,d even pest control.. The gentlemanly and, above all, privileged dimensions of ancient (and modern) hunting means that it has a strong voice in the surviving literary evidence and was continually studied in the scholarship of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries;. the changing horizons of Clas

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1377-1 sponsored use of animals for entertainment had a long history before Rome, dating in the Classical tradition from the Hellenistic period: we have seen Ptolemy II Philadelphus patronizing exotic hunts (see Chapter 11), and a spectacular account of a procession held by him in around 279 BC is preserv