This book explores the link between speech, humanity, and status in ancient Greek thought. It offers new readings of the Iliad, Odyssey, Oresteia and Plato's Dialogues to argue that speech and the ability to speak were instrumental in the ancient...
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This book explores the link between speech, humanity, and status in ancient Greek thought. It offers new readings of the Iliad, Odyssey, Oresteia and Plato's Dialogues to argue that speech and the ability to speak were instrumental in the ancient Greeks' approach to understanding our world
Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-386) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; SEPARATING MAN FROM BEAST: GREECE IS THE WORD; OTHERNESS; WHY THE GREEKS?; OUTLINE OF THE BOOK; CHAPTER 1 Bellowing like a bull: Humans and other animals in Homer; CHAPTER 2 Controlling language: Telemachus learns to speak; CHAPTER 3 Talking through the heroic code: Achilles learns to tell stories; CHAPTER 4 Making a difference: The silence of Otherness; CHAPTER 5 Disentangling the beast: Humans and other animals in the Oresteia; CHAPTER 6 Socratic silence: The shame of the Athenians; Epilogue
THE UNIQUENESS OF HUMAN LANGUAGE?THE UNIQUENESS OF HUMAN RATIONALITY?; THE PLACE OF RATIONALITY IN MORAL THEORY?; RETURNING TO THE GREEKS; Bibliography; COMMENTARIES AND EDITIONS; BOOKS AND ARTICLES; Index
