The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato by John Heath

The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato

John Heath

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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 ...

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