Human and Animal in Ancient Greece

Empathy and Encounter in Classical Literature

Tua Korhonen, Erika Ruonakoski (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2017
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-761-6 (ISBN)

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Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life of classical Greece, and its culture was not merely anthropocentric.

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.

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 Word

PART I READING ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE THROUGH PHENOMENOLOGY
1. Situated Bodies: Embodiment and Empathy
2. Different Aspects of Empathy
3. Viewpoint and Embodiment
4. The Other’s Voice Inside Me: Intimacy and Strangeness of Reading
5. The Problem of Historicity
Summary

PART II ANCIENT RHETORICAL STRATEGIES OF EMPATHETIC ENCOUNTER
1. Greek Reflections on Poets and Poetics
2. The “Vividness” of Artwork and Mimesis
3. Pity versus Identification and Engagement
4. Addresses, Apostrophes and Prosopopoeia
Summary

PART III ON HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS IN ANTIQUITY
1. Alterity and Otherness of Animals in Greek Antiquity
2. Interaction, Interplay, and Encounters
3. Metaphorical Animals
4. Greek Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism
5. Hybrids and Metamorphoses
Summary

PART IV FOUR CASE STUDIES
1. Animal Similes in Homer’s Iliad
2. Sophocles’ Philoctetes
3. Aristophanes’ Birds
4. Anyte’s Epigrams
Summary

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 218 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78453-761-6 / 1784537616
ISBN-13	978-1-78453-761-6 / 9781784537616
Zustand	Neuware