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Plato's Animals

Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts

Jeremy Bell editor Michael Naas editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:1st May '15

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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.

Remarkable.33.2 2016

* Polis *

Plato's Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.

* Notre Dame Philosophical Revie

ISBN: 9780253016133

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 517g

270 pages