Plato's Animals : Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts Hardback
Edited by Jeremy Bell, Michael Naas
Part of the Studies in Continental Thought series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2015
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- ISBN:9780253016133
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2015
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- ISBN:9780253016133
