The Soul of the Greeks : an inquiry / Michael Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Soul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal, and potentially pure. The ancient Greeks, however, conceived of the soul quite differently. In this ambitious new work, Michael Davis analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what he calls "the fully human soul."Beginning with Homer's Ili

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Soul of Achilles

Chapter 1. The Doubleness of Soul

Chapter 2. Out of Itself for the Sake of Itself

Chapter 3. The Soul as Self and Self-Aware

Chapter 4. Rest in Motion: Herodotus's Egypt

Chapter 5. Motion at Rest: Herodotus's Scythians

Chapter 6. The Fake Th at Launched a Thousand Ships: The Duplicity of Identity in the Helen

Chapter 7. Euripides among the Athenians: Th e Double Vision of Soul in Iphigeneia among the Taurians

Chapter 8. The Soul of the Law: Gyges in Herodotus and in Plato

Chapter 9. The Subject of Justice: On Plato's Cleitophon

Chapter 10. The Object of Tyranny: Plato's Hipparchus

Chapter 11. Plato's Phaedrus: Erōs and the Structure of Soul

Chapter 12. The Grammar of Soul: The Middle Voice in Plato's Euthyphro

Conclusion. The Soul of Socrates

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613054852

9781283054850

128305485X

9780226137995

0226137996

OCLC:

710975193