2022-2023
Category: Background: Dogs in War (1) Forster, E. S. 1941. “Dogs in Ancient Warfare”. Greece & Rome. 10. 30: 114-17. Forster includes a list of citations of historical moments in which dogs were used in warfare. This is a great […]
My thesis will be concerned with the role of dogs in Homer and Hesiod. I aim to demonstrate that a canine-based analytical approach to these texts is not only fruitful for understanding dog-specific scenes, but is in fact an effective […]
My thesis will explore the perceptions of dogs and dog imagery in Ancient Greece through Homer, Greek Lyric Poetry, and Xenophon’s Cynegeticus, with occasional comparisons with other works, such as the Theogony. In particular, I am interested in the relationship […]
Throughout classical literature, we see a variety of characterizations of dogs and wolves that motivate many, often opposing, instances of symbolism, which come together in a rich and convoluted depiction of canines as at once savage and nurturing, fickle […]
