Humans and Other Animals: The Roman World

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module explores basic questions of the relations between humans and animals in the ancient Roman world. Through these questions, the module aims to bring to light key social, poetic, moral, political, historical and philosophical aspects of the human in antiquity. We will study the representation of the human animal relation in Roman authors, literatures and visual cultures, from the Roman Empire and late Antiquity.