Fauna in Ancient Sumerian Proverbs: The Role Animals Played in Shaping Southern Mesopotamian Social Norms and Conventions

Idan Breier

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-12405-1_2

Fauna in Ancient Sumerian Proverbs: The Role Animals Played in Shaping Southern Mesopotamian Social Norms and Conventions

Idan Breier

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

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This chapter explores faunal representation in the third-millennium collections of Sumerian proverbs preserved in southern Mesopotamia.Popular sayings, these were designed to teach a person how to succeed in life and act morally and ethically.Animals served this purpose by functioning as models of imitation/warning and/or metaphors for diverse types of human beings.Both domesticated creatures living in human society and wild beasts wandering freely in their nature habitat appear in the proverbs.All the sayings embody the Sumerians’ extensive faunal knowledge and the great significance they attached to social norms and ethical conduct.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	19-49
Number of pages	31
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12405-1_2
State	Published - 2022

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Name	Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
ISSN (Print)	2634-6672
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-6680

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