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Academic & Professional Books  Ornithology  Birds: General

Birds in the Ancient World From A to Z

By: W Geoffrey Arnott
304 pages, Illus
Publisher: Routledge
Birds in the Ancient World From A to Z
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About this book

&i;Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z&o; gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies.

The ancient Greek bird names are transliterated into English script, and all that the ancients said about birds is presented in English. This book is accordingly the first complete discussion of ancient bird names that will be accessible to readers without ancient Greek.

The only large-scale examination of ancient birds for seventy years, the book has an exhaustive bibliography (partly classical scholarship and partly ornithological) to encourage further study, and provides students and ornithologists with the definitive study of ancient birds.

Contents

Preface. Symbols and Abbreviations. Ancient Birds from A to Z. Bibliography. Index of English Bird Names

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Biography

W. Geoffrey Arnott is former Professor of Greek at the University of Leeds and Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Alexis: The Fragments (1996) and an edition of Menander in three volumes (1979, 1996 and 2000). He was also a former president of the Leeds Birdwatchers' Club.

By: W Geoffrey Arnott
304 pages, Illus
Publisher: Routledge
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