Who Speaks: Reflections on Voice and Logos in Sophocles's Ajax, Aristotle and Plato.
I consider Sophocles's tragedy the Ajax against the backdrop of Pericles's invocation of silence about and from women, Pericles's citizenship law of 451BCE and Aristotle's understanding of the human being as a political animal possessing logos. I argue that in the actions and speeches of the play th...
| Publicado en: | Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 287 - 304 |
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