The talking Greeks : speech, animals, and the other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato

The talking Greeks : speech, animals, and the other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato / John Heath.

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...

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Main Author: Heath, John, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
©2005
Subjects:
Aeschylus > Criticism and interpretation.
Homer > Criticism and interpretation.
Plato.
Aeschylus.
Homer.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Speech in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Language and languages in literature.
Gods, Greek, in literature.
Human beings in literature.
Animals in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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