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By W. Geoffrey Arnott

ISBN-10: 041523851X

ISBN-13: 9780415238519

ISBN-10: 0415540887

ISBN-13: 9780415540889

Birds within the historical international from A to Z gathers jointly the traditional info on hand, directory all of the names that historical Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. W. Geoffrey Arnott identifies as a lot of them as attainable within the gentle of contemporary ornithological stories.

The historic Greek chicken names are transliterated into English script, and all that the ancients acknowledged approximately birds is gifted in English. This publication is for this reason the 1st whole dialogue of historic chicken names that would be obtainable to readers with out historic Greek.


The basically large-scale exam of historic birds for seventy years, the e-book has an exhaustive bibliography (partly classical scholarship and partially ornithological) to motivate extra learn, and gives scholars and ornithologists with the definitive research of historical birds.

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