ABSTRACT
Our knowledge of Greek animal husbandry is somewhat limited. The basic literature on this topic is still 0. Keller, Die antike Tierwelt (1909) and a series of often admirable articles on individual domesticated animals in Pauly-\Vissowa's Realencyclopaedie.78 Furthermore, there are German dissertations from the University of Giessen which deal with the most important domesticated animals: thus A. Hornshemeyer, Die Pferdezucht im klassischen Altertum (1929), K. Winkelstern, Die Schweinezucht im klassischen Altertum (1933), Otto Brendel, Die Schafzucht im alten Griechenland (1934), and K. Zeissig, Die Rinderzucht im alten Griechenland (1934), all written by authors with practical experience in agriculture. Today they may appear slightly outdated. Naturally, we find sections in works of a more general nature which deal with the subject (quoted on p. 19), and in particular we should mention W. Richter's treatment in Die Landwirtschaft im homerischen Zeitalter (1968), which contains very useful notes and references. If, on the other hand, the reader wants to obtain a general view of cattle-breeding and its relation to agriculture, it is not so easy. The topic was discussed at the Ninth International Congress for Economic History in Bern (1986 ); the contributions were published in 1988 under the title Pastoral Economies in Classical Antiquity.79 On this occasion it became clear that there were essential disagreements among the participants, not least within the Greek zone.
