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

Author/creator Davis, Michael, 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Description237 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Soul.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Greek literature--History and criticism.
Soul in literature.

Contents The soul of Achilles -- Aristotle -- The doubleness of soul -- Out of itself for the sake of itself -- Nutritive soul -- Sensing soul: vision -- Thinking soul. Sensation and imagination ; Passive and active mind ; Imagination and thought -- The soul as self and self-aware -- "The father of the Logos" -- "For the friend is another self" -- Herodotus: the rest and motion of soul -- Rest in motion: Herodotus's Egypt -- Motion at rest: Herodotus's Scythians -- Euripides: soul as same and other -- The fake that launched a thousand ships: the duplicity of identity in the Helen -- Euripides among the Athenians: the double vision of soul in Iphigeneia among the Taurians -- Plato -- The soul of the law: Gyges in Herodotus and in Plato -- The subject of justice: on Plato's Cleitophon -- The object of tyranny: Plato's Hipparchus -- Plato's Phaedrus: Er's and the structure of soul -- The grammar of soul: the middle voice in Plato's Euthyphro -- The soul of Socrates.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010024178
ISBN9780226137964 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226137961 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks B187.S6 D38 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold