praise and rewards
and allegiance that defined the era
delivered certain teachings
Writers have a reputation of being tortured souls languishing among the living
Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America
Citizen Beast Angela Lakwete praise and rewardsAnimals, power, and belonging in the Roman Empire. Animals were everywhere in the Roman world: in labor, ritual, entertainment, warfare, and luxury. In Citizen Beast, Martin Devecka argues that they were not merely background figures but central participants in the formation of empire. He examines how animals came to belong to Rome and how their incorporation mirrored the processes that shaped human citizenship, subjection, and exclusion. Birds, mice,