Ancient Greek ideas on speech, language, and civilization

Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language, and Civilization......Page 2
ISBN 0-19-925616-0......Page 3
PREFACE......Page 6
1. LANGUAGES IN HOMER......Page 14
2. THE CYCLOPES' SOCIETY......Page 17
3. LANGUAGE, DIET, AND LAWS......Page 21
4. COMMUNICATING WITH ANIMALS......Page 24
A Common Tongue: Babrius and Plato......Page 31
Babrius......Page 32
Plato......Page 35
An Adamic Golden Age Language?......Page 37
Universal Languages......Page 39
Speaking Animals......Page 42
Utopian Languages......Page 45
2. EARLY LANGUAGE......Page 49
Lucretius......Page 50
Vico......Page 52
Rousseau......Page 54
Primitive and Poetic Tongues......Page 55
Poetry......Page 58
Hesiod's Golden Age......Page 59
The Language of the Gods......Page 62
Women as First Speakers......Page 67
Golden Age Vegetarianism......Page 70
Animals and Humans......Page 74
1. THE EXPERIMENT AND ITS BACKGROUND......Page 81
Herodotus' Account......Page 83
Psammetichus and Modern LinguistS......Page 86
Ontogeny and Phylogeny......Page 88
Psammetichus' Scientific Inclinations......Page 89
Scientific Controls and Isolation......Page 90
Isolation from Society......Page 92
The Word Bekos......Page 96
First Gestures......Page 103
Re-creating the Experiment......Page 105
Feral Children......Page 108
Condillac......Page 110
Maupertuis, Rousseau, Smith, and Herder......Page 115
Modern Versions of Psammetichus' Experiment......Page 118
4. ANCIENT REACTIONS TO THE EXPERIMENT......Page 120
4. The Invention of Language......Page 125
1. GODS AS INVENTORS OF LANGUAGE......Page 126
Hermes......Page 128
Euripides' Supplices......Page 131
Prometheus......Page 133
2. CULTURE HEROES AND FIRST MEN: PALAMEDES, THEUTH, AND PHORONEUS......Page 135
3. THE GREAT MYTH OF THE PROTAGORAS......Page 140
Religion and Protolanguage......Page 141
Building and Language......Page 146
Articulated Speech: Xenophon, Diodorus, and Archelaus......Page 147
The Nature of Protagoras' First LanguAge......Page 150
Language and Law-Abiding Societies......Page 153
Sophocles and Babel......Page 158
4. FIRE AND LANGUAGE......Page 160
Cooking and Culture......Page 163
The Source of Fire......Page 165
Mastering Fire and Mastering Language......Page 167
Vitruvius, Diodorus, and Cicero......Page 171
Diodorus of Sicily......Page 172
Democritus, the Cratylus, and Conventionalism......Page 180
Epicurus, Lucretius, and Diogenes of Oenoanda......Page 183
Lucretius......Page 187
Diogenes of Oenoanda......Page 190
1. INTRODUCTION: LANGUAGE, SPEECH, AND COMMUNICATION......Page 195
2. THE LANGUAGE OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES......Page 197
Non-Speaking Savages: Dogheads and Fisheaters......Page 198
Speaking Savages......Page 205
Gestures......Page 208
Deaf Mutes......Page 211
Gaining Speech: Croesus ' Son and Aesop......Page 213
Losing Speech: Cratylus......Page 215
Weaving and the Language of Women......Page 216
Women and Slaves......Page 220
Parrots and Corocottas......Page 221
A Friendly Lion......Page 224
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 226
INDEX LOCORUM......Page 240
GENERAL INDEX......Page 256