Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
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....