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Attitude of the Greeks Towards Animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

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page 209 note 1 Cf. also Eur. Ion 179, .

page 209 note 2 The southern element in the Greek nation came from men who were not great flesh-eaters. Harrison, Prol. 57.

page 210 note 1 In Hesiod we are told that δικη, the gift of Heaven to man, does not exist among beasts, birds, or fishes (Works, 277). But the poet is thinking of the relations of animals to one another, rather than those of men to animals.