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    Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
    Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
    Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
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    Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece

    By Jill Gordon, Sara Brill, S. Montgomery Ewegen and

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    Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents 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 of ancient Greece.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateSep 6, 2022
    ISBN9780253062833
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