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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The talking Greeks :/ John Heath.
Reminder of title:	speech, animals, and the other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato /
Author:	Heath, John,
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 392 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Greek literature - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483011
ISBN:	9780511483011 (ebook)

The talking Greeks : = speech, animals, and the other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato /
Heath, John,1955-

The talking Greeks :speech, animals, and the other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato /John Heath. - 1 online resource (vii, 392 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

I: Speech, animals, and human status in Homer -- Bellowing like a bull: humans and other animals in Homer -- Controlling language: Telemachus learns to speak -- Talking through the heroic code: Achilles learning to tell tales -- II: Listening for the other in classical Greece -- Making a difference: the silence of otherness -- III: Speech, animals, and human status in classical Athens -- Disentangling the beast: humans and other animals in the Oresteia -- Socratic silence: the shame of the Athenians.

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.

ISBN: 9780511483011 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

1444463
Aeschylus
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

555345
Greek literature
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PA3015.S74 / H43 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 880.9/353

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