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Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words

Jeremy Mynott

Birds played an important role in the ancient world: as indicators of time, weather, and seasons; as a resource for hunting, medicine, and farming; as pets and entertainment; as omens and messengers of the gods. Jeremy Mynott explores the similarities and surprising differences between ancient perceptions of the natural world and our own.

Nature & EnvironmentNature & Environment · medium confidenceNature & Environment81 signalsLlm Classifier: Nature & Environment -> Nature & EnvironmentGoogle Books: Art -> Arts & CriticismKeyword Classifier: Medicine & Public Health -> Medicine & Public HealthClimate, Weather & DisasterMedicine, Health & the BodyPublic Health Systems

Award History

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Wolfson History PrizeMajor2019ShortlistOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Birds served as crucial indicators and resources in the ancient world, and ancient perceptions of them both resemble and differ unexpectedly from modern views.

    Model confidence 60%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    63 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.