Plato's Animals
Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts
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Publication
2015 - Indiana University Press
Language
English
Word Count
67,500 words, Guess
Page Count
270 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28556913M
- ISBN-139780253016133
- OCLC Control Number892162525
- Library of Congress Control Number2014039533
Classifications
- LCCB398.A64P53 2015
Description
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.
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