Sumerian Faunal Fables: Talking Animals and Educational Lessons

Idan Breier

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-12405-1_3

Sumerian Faunal Fables: Talking Animals and Educational Lessons

Idan Breier

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

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Although only written down at the end of the third millennium BCE, the Sumerian proverbs and fables had a long popular oral tradition.Citing animals that speak and act just like human beings, they served as didactic stories conveying educational messages and exemplifying behavior to be emulated or shunned.Closely analyzing the early sources from a comparative perspective, this chapter explores the ways in which animals lived and interacted with human beings in third-millennium Sumer, animal types and the socio-ethical values they represent, and whether they influenced Aesop’s later Greek fables.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	51-65
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12405-1_3
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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