Download or read book The Representation of Monkeys in the Art and Thought of Mediterranean Cultures written by Cybelle Greenlaw and published by British Archaeological Reports Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired in part by the famous blue monkeys of Thera, in this original work, the author provides a survey of the diverse cultural attitudes toward monkeys through an examination of the iconographical, physical and textual evidence from several Mediterranean cultures. Contents: 1) Monkeys in Egypt: From the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic Period; 2) Monkeys in the Near East; 3) Monkeys in the Bronze Age Aegean; 4) Monkeys in the Greco-Roman World; 5) The Greco-Roman Legacy.