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From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other Classical Animals demonstrates how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought that have ultimately led us to our present historical moment.

Introduction: critical theory and the classical world -- Out of the ancient earth -- Marx, Epicurus and the classical world -- Mnemosyne: art, memory, objects -- Human: Troy -- Force: Achilles -- Enlightenment: Odysseus -- Cosmos: the classical gods -- Spirit: the classical statue -- Domination: the Atreides

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Map -- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK -- PART 1 THEMATIC STUDY: WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Introduction to Women in the Ancient World -- 1.1 Women of Legend -- GREECE -- ROME -- 1.2 Young Women -- GREECE -- ROME -- 1.3 Women in the Home -- GREECE: ATHENS -- GREECE: SPARTA -- ROME -- 1.4 'Improper' Women -- GREECE -- ROME -- 1.5 Women and Religion -- GREECE -- ROME -- 1.6 Women in Power -- GREECE -- ROME -- 1.7 Warrior Women -- GREECE -- ROME -- 1.8 Women to be Feared -- GREECE -- ROME -- What to Expect in the Exam for Women in the Ancient World -- THE EXAMINATION -- QUESTION TYPES -- GENERAL EXAM SKILLS -- PART 2 CULTURE AND LITERATURE -- Introduction to the Culture and Literature Options -- L& -- C 1 The Homeric World -- Introduction to the Homeric World -- Culture -- 2.1 Key Sites -- THE CONCEPT AND DATING OF THE MYCENAEAN AGE -- THE LOCATION AND IMPORTANCE OF THE KEY SITES, INCLUDING MYCENAE, TIRYNS AND TROY -- THE LAYOUT AND STRUCTURES OF THE SITES OF MYCENAE AND TIRYNS -- TROY -- 2.2 Life in the Mycenaean Age -- PALACES -- HUNTING -- ARMOUR AND WEAPONS -- CHARIOTS -- CLOTHING -- TRADE -- LINEAR B TABLETS -- 2.3 Decorative Arts -- FRESCOES -- JEWELLERY -- DECORATIVE OBJECTS AND THEIR CREATION -- 2.4 Tombs, Graves and Burial -- BURIAL CUSTOMS -- STRUCTURE AND USE OF CIST GRAVES -- STRUCTURE AND USE OF SHAFT GRAVES -- STRUCTURE AND USE OF THOLOS AND CHAMBER TOMBS -- THE USE OF FUNERARY OBJECTS -- THE CONTENTS OF THE GRAVES OF GRAVE CIRCLE A AND GRAVE CIRCLE B AT MYCENAE -- Literature -- 2.5 Literary Techniques and Composition -- HOMER AS A STORY-TELLER AND THE IDEA OF EPIC -- THE PLOT OF THE ODYSSEY -- THE INDIVIDUAL BOOKS -- HOW THE ODYSSEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN COMPOSED AND PERFORMED -- 2.6 Themes -- XENIA (GUEST-FRIENDSHIP).

This is a collection of essays exploring the relationship between classics and national cultures across many regions including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy. It poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms

""The Euhemerist and the European Perception and Description of the American Indians""""Myths and Legends in the Old World and European Expansionism on the American Continent""; ""The Other World and the â€?Antipodesâ€?. The Myth of Unknown Countries between Antiquity and the Renaissance""; ""The Amazon Myth and Latin America""; ""Â"El DoradoÂ" and the Myth of the Golden Fleece""; ""Classical Antiquity, America, and the Myth of the Noble Savage""; ""Adveniat tandem Typhis qui detegat orbes. COLUMBUS in Neo-Latin Epic Poetry (15thâ€?18th Centuries)""

This book radically re-examines Europe's imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical theory in its widest sense - beyond the Frankfurt School - like the human, force, spirit and domination, it allies them to characters, mythologies and motifs in ancient thought. Just as the stories of Achilles, Helen and Odysseus have become central to our modes of self-understanding, so we can also examine the roots and routes of the concepts of social theory out of the ancient earth and its myths. An important book for scholars and students of critical theory, social theory, aesthetic theory and the history of the human sciences, it alerts us to the catastrophe that we are facing in the 21st century - a catastrophe of domination and ecological collapse that has its origins in the ancient world and the ways in which it began to define a certain sense of humanness. Considering the artistic production of the ancient world in relation to the thought of Adorno, Critical Theory and the Classical World argues that it is only by understanding the persistence of the haunted motifs of the past into the present that we can begin to re-forge our critical theory of society and re-found our social formations on a new basis.