Human and Animal in Ancient Greece

Empathy and Encounter in Classical Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions.This book discusses the role of animals - both domestic and wild - and mythological hybrid creatures in ancient Greek literature. Challenging the traditional view of the Greek anthropocentrism, the authors provide a nuanced interpretation of the classical relationship to animals. Through a close textual analysis, they highlight the emergence of the perspective of animals in Greek literature. Central to the book's enquiry is the question of empathy: investigating the ways in which ancient Greek authors invited their readers to empathise with non-human counterparts. The book presents case studies on the animal similes in the Iliad, the addresses to animals and nature in Sophocles' Philoctetes, the human-bird hybrids in The Birds by Aristophanes and the animal protagonists of Anyte's epigrams. Throughout, the authors develop an innovative methodology that combines philological and historical analysis with a philosophy of embodiment, or phenomenology of the body.Shedding new light on how animals were regarded in ancient Greek society, the book will be of interest to classicists, historians, philosophers, literary scholars and all those studying empathy and the human-animal relationship.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-03-17
Mått138 x 218 x 20 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781784537616

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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