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The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an
essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on
women/gender and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features
original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an
accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new questions in
the study of ancient Greek philosophy and its multiple afterlives.
Comprising 40 chapters from a diverse international group of
experts, the Handbook considers questions about women and gender in
sources from Greek antiquity spanning the period from 7th c. BCE to
2nd c. CE, and in receptions of Greek antiquity from the European
Renaissance to the current day. Chapters are organized into five
major sections: I. Early Greek antiquity – including Sappho,
Presocratic philosophy, Sophists, and Greek tragedy - 700s-400s BCE
II. Classical Greek antiquity – including Aeschines, Plato, and
Xenophon - 370s-340s BCE III. Hellenistic antiquity – including
Cyrenaics, Cynics, the Hippocratic corpus, and Aristotle –
330s-320s BCE IV. Late Greek antiquity to Roman Imperial period –
including Pythagorean women, Stoics, Pyrrhonian Skeptics, late
Platonists – 320s BCE-600s CE V. Later receptions – including
Shakespeare, the European Renaissance, Anna Julia Cooper, W.E.B.
DuBois, Jane Harrison, Sarah Kofman, and Toni Morrison The
Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is a vital
resource for students and scholars in philosophy, Classics, and
gender studies who want to gain a deeper understanding of
philosophy’s rich past and explore sources and questions beyond
the traditional canon. The volume is a valuable resource, as well,
for students and scholars from history, humanities, literature,
political science, religious studies, rhetorical studies, theatre,
and LGBTQ and sexuality studies.
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the
first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and
hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western
culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the
significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks.
The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as
being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures
in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the
philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans,
Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound,
and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research
from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the
ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence
shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece.
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the
first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and
hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western
culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the
significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks.
The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as
being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures
in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the
philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans,
Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound,
and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research
from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the
ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence
shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece.
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Plato's Animals - Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Jeremy Bell, Michael Naas; Contributions by Christopher Long, Claudia Baracchi, Sara Brill, …
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Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images,
metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These
fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,
stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate
Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are
central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals,
humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education,
sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the
soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive
annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.
Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images,
metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These
fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,
stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate
Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are
central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals,
humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education,
sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the
soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive
annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.
By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic
dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as
remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings
of political life and institutions. As she explores the character
of the soul, Brill reveals the corrective function that law and
myth serve. If the soul is limitless, she claims, then the city
must serve a regulatory or prosthetic function and prop up good
political institutions against the threat of the soul's excess.
Brill's sensitivity to dramatic elements and discursive strategies
in Plato's dialogues illuminates the intimate connection between
city and soul. -- Indiana University Press
By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic
dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as
remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings
of political life and institutions. As she explores the character
of the soul, Brill reveals the corrective function that law and
myth serve. If the soul is limitless, she claims, then the city
must serve a regulatory or prosthetic function and prop up good
political institutions against the threat of the soul's excess.
Brill's sensitivity to dramatic elements and discursive strategies
in Plato's dialogues illuminates the intimate connection between
city and soul. -- Indiana University Press
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