The following list is obviously not meant to be exhaustive and is constantly being updated. If you have further bibliographic suggestions, you are warmly to send them to paola.moretti@unimi.it.
Anderson, R. 2020, review of: Burrus, Ancient Christian Ecopoetics’, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27, 670-72
Arentzen, T. – Burrus, V. – Peers, G. 2021, ‘In the Beginning, Trees’, in: Arentzen, T. – Burrus, V. – Peers, G., Byzantine Tree Life. Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination, 65-106
Breaking the Silence Exploring Human-Animal Interactions in the Classical World: https://btsproject.hypotheses.org
Buell, L. 2013, ‘La critica letteraria diventa eco’, in: Ecocritica. La letteratura e la crisi del pianeta, Roma, 3-15
Burrus, V. 2019, Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies,Saints,Things, Philadelphia
Castoldi, M. – Pace, A. – Tecchiati, U. 2025, Il cane Argo e altre storie. Gli animali e l’archeologia, Milano (contents available at: https://www.academia.edu/143196272/Il_Cane_Argo_e_altre_storie_Gli_animali_e_larcheologia)
Campbell, G.L. 2014, The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life, Oxford
Cantino Wataghin, G. 2020, Uomo e «natura» nella tarda antichità: rappresentazione e percezione, AntTard 29, 29-42
Clark, G. 2011. ‘The Fathers and the Animals: The Rule of Reason?’, in G.K., Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity, London (19981), 67-79
Cohen, J.J. 2012, Animal. Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects, Washington
Coming After: Ecopoetics in Late Antiquity and Beyond: https://comingafter-ugent.be
Cox Miller, P. 2013, ‘Adam, Eve, and the Elephants: Asceticism and Animality’, in Leyerle, B. – Young, R.D. (eds.), Ascetic Culture. Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau, Notre Dame, 253-68
Crane, S. 2013, Animal Encounters Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain, Philadelphia
Fauquier, M. 2019, review of: Burrus, Ancient Christian Ecopoetics’, BMCR, 2019.11.23
Filoramo, G. 2020, ‘Imago naturae. Cristiani e pagani a confronto nello specchio della natura (IV-V secolo)’, AntTard 29, 139-147
Finkelpearl, E. 2015, Elephant Tears. Animal Emotion in Pliny and Aelian, in Clark, C.A.-Foster, E.-Hallett J.P. (eds.), Kinesis. The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion. Essays for D. Lateiner, Ann Arbor, 173-187
Fögen,Th. – Thomas, E.V. (eds.) 2017, Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Berlin-Boston
Fögen, Th. 2017, ‘Animals in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: A Select Bibliography’, in Fögen,Th. – Thomas, E.V. 2017a, 435-74
Gasti F. – Romano E. (eds.) 2003, ‘Buoni per pensare’. Gli animali nel pensiero e nella letteratura dell’antichità, Pavia
Gianotti, G.F. – Pagella, E. 2024, Animali in società, Torino
Gilhus, S.I. 2006, Animals, Gods and Humans Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought, London.
Gilhus, S.I. 2014, ‘Animals in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity’, in: Campbell 2014, 355-65
Glotfelty, C. 1996, ‘Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Ecological Crisis’, in: The Ecocriticism Reader, Athens-London, xv-xxxvii
Goldhill, S. 2024, ‘Beyond Michel Foucault, Beyond Peter Brown: What Did Early Christianity Destroy?’, Arethusa 57, 193-225
Goldhill 2024, interview https://comingafter-ugent.be/2024/09/30/interview-simon-goldhill-and-chiara-thumiger/
Hadot, H. 2006, The Veil of Isis. An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature, Cambridge-London
Hall, M. 2011, Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany, New York
Hamon, R. 2018, ‘Garden and Wilderness: an Ecocritical Exploration of Gen. 2:4b-3:24’, The Bible and Critical Theory,63-86
Harden, A. 2013, Animals in the Classical World Ethical Perspectives from Greek and Roman Texts, s.l.
Iovino, S. 2017, ‘Revealing Roots–Ecocriticism and the Cultures of Antiquity’, in: Schliephake 2017, 309-15
Labarrière , J.-L. 2003, ‘Bons à penser’. Pour qui, comment et pourquoi?, in Gasti – Romano 2003, 13-28
Lazaris, S. – Aragon, S. 2025, Identifications des espèces animales de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Valenciennes (https://www.orient-mediterranee.com/activity/identifications-des-especes-animales-de-lantiquite-a-nos-jours/)
LeVasseur, T. – Peterson, A. 2017, ‘Introduction’, in: Religion and Ecological Crisis The Lynn White Thesis at Fifty, New York, 1-17
Li Causi, P. 2008, Generare in comune. Teorie e rappresentazioni dell’ibrido nel sapere zoologico dei Greci e dei Romani, Palermo
Li Causi, P. 2018, Gli animali nel mondo antico, Bologna
Li Causi, P. – Pomelli, R. 2015, L’anima degli animali. Aristotele, frammenti stoici, Plutarco e Porfirio, Torino
Lubian, F., 2020, Lo sguardo cristiano sul creato: senso della vista e uso delle immagini nel sesto libro dell’Exameron ambrosiano, Adamantius 26, 174-192
Luceri, A., 2023, La creazione degli animali in Draconzio (laud. Dei, 1, 234-328): tra tradizione biblica e classica, RET 90, 227-245
Mabie, J., 2015, ‘The Field is Ripe: Christian Literary Scholarship, Postcolonial Ecocriticism’, and Environmentalism, Christianity and Literature, 279-97
Marlowe, H. – Harris, M. 2022, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology, Oxford
Newmeyer, S. 2007, Animals in Ancient Philosophy: Conceptions and Misconceptions, in Kalof, L. (ed.), A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity, New York, 151-174
Rigby, K. 2023, Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction, New York
Schaff, I. 2019, Animal kingdom of heaven: anthropozoological aspects in the late antique world, Berlin – Boston
Schliephake, C. (ed.) 2020, The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World: Questions and Perspectives, Cambridge
Schliephake, C. 2024, interview: https://comingafter-ugent.be/2024/07/08/interview-christopher-schliephake/
Usher, M.D. 2023, How to Care about Animals. An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small. Porphyry and Friends, Princeton-Oxford
Vespa, M. 2023, I Greci, i Romani e… gli animali, Roma.
White, L. jr. 1967, ‘The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis’, Science, 1203-7
Whitmarsh, T. 2020, Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon I-II, Cambridge
Zapf, H. 2016a (ed.), Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, Berlin-Boston
Zapf, H. 2016b, ‘Cultural Ecology of Literature–Literature as Cultural Ecology’, in: Zapf 2016a, 135-53
Zapf, H. 2016c, ‘Introduction’, in:Zapf 2016a, 1-16
Zoomathia. Transmission culturelle des savoirs zoologiques (Zoomathia – GDRi): https://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/sites/zoomathia/
Zucker, A. – Franco, C. – Vespa, M. (eds.) 2023, Zoomathia. Learning about Animals in Ancient and Medieval Cultures, Siena ( https://edizioni.unistrasi.it/volume?id_sez=1282 )