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 The Soul of the Greeks: An Inquiry 

 By Michael Davis

Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011-Retail PDF 

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The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly
shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for
example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal, and potentially pure. The ancient Greeks,
however, conceived of the soul quite differently. In this ambitious new work, Michael Davis analyzes works by Homer,
Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what he calls
“the fully human soul.”

Beginning with Homer’s Iliad, Davis lays out the tension within
the soul of Achilles between immortality and life. He then turns to Aristotle’s De Anima and Nicomachean Ethics
to explore the consequences of the problem of Achilles across the whole range of the soul’s activity. Moving to
Herodotus and Euripides, Davis considers the former’s portrayal of the two extremes of culture—one rooted
in stability and tradition, the other in freedom and motion—and explores how they mark the limits of character.
Davis then shows how Helen and Iphigeneia among the Taurians serve to provide dramatic examples of Herodotus’s
extreme cultures and their consequences for the soul. The book returns to philosophy in the final part, plumbing several
Platonic dialogues—the Republic, Cleitophon, Hipparchus, Phaedrus, Euthyphro, and Symposium—to understand
the soul’s imperfection in relation to law, justice, tyranny, eros, the gods, and philosophy itself. Davis
concludes with Plato’s presentation of the soul of Socrates as self-aware and nontragic, even if it is
necessarily alienated and divided against itself.

The Soul of the Greeks thus begins with the imperfect soul
as it is manifested in Achilles’ heroic, but tragic, longing and concludes with its nontragic and fuller
philosophic expression in the soul of Socrates. But, far from being a historical survey, it is instead a brilliant
meditation on what lies at the heart of being human. 

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