| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 392 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-386) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aeschylus -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Aeschylus. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Homer. |
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Plato.
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Plato. |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Speech in literature.
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Speech in literature. |
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature. |
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature. |
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Language and languages in literature.
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Language and languages in literature. |
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Gods, Greek, in literature.
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Gods, Greek, in literature. |
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Human beings in literature.
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Human beings in literature. |
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Animals in literature.
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Animals in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heath, John, 1955- Talking Greeks. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2004061594 |
| ISBN |
0511111134 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511111136 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780521832649 |
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0521832640 |
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0511111460 (electronic book) |
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9780511111464 (electronic book) |
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9780511483011 (ebook) |
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0511483015 (ebook) |
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1280415584 |
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9781280415586 |
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0521832640 (Cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9780521832649 |
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