@inbook{b30da85d113545b3b75853d3fbcff534,
title = "Sumerian Faunal Fables: Talking Animals and Educational Lessons",
abstract = "Although only written down at the end of the third millennium BCE, the Sumerian proverbs and fables had a long popular oral tradition.Citing animals that speak and act just like human beings, they served as didactic stories conveying educational messages and exemplifying behavior to be emulated or shunned.Closely analyzing the early sources from a comparative perspective, this chapter explores the ways in which animals lived and interacted with human beings in third-millennium Sumer, animal types and the socio-ethical values they represent, and whether they influenced Aesop{\textquoteright}s later Greek fables.",
author = "Idan Breier",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2022",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12405-1_3",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "51--65",
booktitle = "Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series",
address = "الولايات المتّحدة",
}