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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

Heath, John

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521832640
ISBN13: 9780521832649
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 12 2005
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.61
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
What drove the ancient Greeks to explore human nature and invent Western politics? This book argues that the Greeks believed speech made humans different from other animals. But, this zoological comparison also provided the metaphorical means for viewing those 'lacking' authoritative speech--women, barbarians, and slaves, etc.--as bestial. This link between speech, humanity, and status is revealed through close study of both Homeric epics, classical Athenian culture, Aeschylus' Oresteia, and Plato's Dialogues.

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