Maurizio Bettini is professor of classical philology at the Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy, and a regular visiting professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Emlyn Eisenach is an independent scholar and translator and the author of Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona.
"The translation of Maurizio Bettini's Women and Weasels is a major
event for classical studies, women's studies, and animal studies.
Starting from a rather obscure Greek myth linking childbirth with
the weasel, Bettini's remarkable erudition uncovers a lost world of
human-animal relations that spans epochs and continents. Its
seamless weave of folklore, mythography, anthropology, literary
criticism, critical theory, and zoology is both a model of
transdisciplinary achievement and an absorbing, brilliantly told
tale for the everyday reader." -- "Mark Payne, University of
Chicago"
"This is a book of sublime humanism, marrying investigative rigor
and conspicuous compassion in a work that traces the persistent
expression of an idea from archaic Greece, across classical and
medieval Europe, to an early twentieth-century rural American
South. That idea persists because it captures a desperation that
lies at the very core of the survival-driven human species--the
shadowed mystery and potential peril of the conception and bringing
forth of one living body from another. Reading Women and Weasels,
one is reminded again why Maurizio Bettini is recognized not only
as one of Italy's leading public intellectuals but also as a
scholar of uncommon sensitivity and perceptivity, supremely in
touch with the life of ancient humanity."-- "Roger D. Woodard,
University of Buffalo"
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