Talking Greeks

Name: Talking Greeks
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521117784
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Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato

Autor: John Heath

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Cambridge University Press

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When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestio...

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Autor

John Heath

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2009

Stránok

404

EAN

9780521117784

ISBN

052111778X

Enbook ID

02022644

Vydavateľ

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnosť

590

Rozmery

152 x 229 x 23

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When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestions. This book argues that the defining criterion in the Hellenic world, however, was the most obvious one: speech. It explores how it was the capacity for authoritative speech which was held to separate humans from other animals, gods from humans, men from women, Greeks from non-Greeks, citizens from slaves, and the mundane from the heroic. John Heath illustrates how Homer's epics trace the development of immature young men into adults managing speech in entirely human ways and how in Aeschylus' Oresteia only human speech can disentangle man, beast, and god. Plato's Dialogues are shown to reveal the consequences of Socratically imposed silence. With its examination of the Greek focus on speech, animalization, and status, this book offers new readings of key texts and provides significant insights into the Greek approach to understanding our world.

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Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato

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