Human and Animal in Ancient Greece

Tua Korhonen is Docent of Greek Literature at the University of Helsinki and a member of the editorial board for Trace - The Finnish Journal for Human- Animal Studies.Erika Ruonakoski is University Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Jyvaskyla, and has written extensively on phenomenology and empathy with animals.

• Introduction: ???????? is a Greek WordPART I READING ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE THROUGH PHENOMENOLOGY1. Situated Bodies: Embodiment and Empathy2. Different Aspects of Empathy3. Viewpoint and Embodiment4. The Other’s Voice Inside Me: Intimacy and Strangeness of Reading5. The Problem of Historicity SummaryPART II ANCIENT RHETORICAL STRATEGIES OF EMPATHETIC ENCOUNTER1. Greek Reflections on Poets and Poetics 2. The “Vividness” of Artwork and Mimesis3. Pity versus Identification and Engagement4. Addresses, Apostrophes and ProsopopoeiaSummaryPART III ON HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS IN ANTIQUITY1. Alterity and Otherness of Animals in Greek Antiquity2. Interaction, Interplay, and Encounters3. Metaphorical Animals4. Greek Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism5. Hybrids and MetamorphosesSummaryPART IV FOUR CASE STUDIES1. Animal Similes in Homer’s Iliad2. Sophocles’ Philoctetes3. Aristophanes’ Birds4. Anyte’s EpigramsSummaryConclusion

Highly informative ... the book’s main achievement is to make the rich ancient sources on human/animal relations available to a larger audience.