ABSTRACT
Greek philosophy and literature are a rich source of depictions of animal behavior interpreted in light of its contrasts and similarities to human behavior. The purposes served by such comparisons between the animal and human realms are various; sometimes scientific, sometimes illustrative or even comic, sometimes more profoundly part of a project of human self-definition or self-location, of highlighting the specific place of human life and society within the larger framework of the life-world in general. 1
