(Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, 2011) Karamucka, Magdalena
The article aims to examine the representation of donkey in the ancient Greek and Roman culture and literature.
It is investigated, on the example of selected texts, how developed the popular, negative stereotypes about
stupid, lazy and even greedy and lustful donkeys, that seems to have their origins in Greek-Roman mentality
and literature. The article contains a part of symbolic meanings and idioms connected with donkeys, especially
these, that derive from antiquity.