Plato's animals : gadflies, horses, swans, and other philosophical beasts /

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Imprint:	Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in Continental Thought Studies in Continental thought.
Subject:	Plato. -- Dialogues. Dialogues (Plato) Animals (Philosophy) Animals (Philosophy) Electronic book. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11305046

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Other authors / contributors:	Naas, Michael, editor. Bell, Jeremy, 1977- editor.
ISBN:	9780253016201 0253016207 9780253016133 9780253016171 0253016134 0253016177
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Plato's animals. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2015 9780253016133

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