Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the first the first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern…
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Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the first the first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks. The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore hearing as being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures in ancient Greek philosophy.Through close analysis of the philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans, Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound, and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence shaped and reflected the worldview
Greece in the Ancient World
In Ancient Greece
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece
Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome
Music in Ancient Greece
Game on in Ancient Greece