El alma de los animales en la Grecia arcaica

Abstract

This doctoral dissertation, The soul of animals in archaic Greece, is a philological work, the subject of which also relates to the fields of history of religions and philosophy. It explores the concept of animal soul in archaic Greece on the basis of texts belonging toand referring to that period. Terminology used to describe animal soul’s idea is always reviewed in the context where different soul terms are framed. In turn, these terms are compared with those applied in reference to the human soul. The study tries to show that ancient Greeks had a notion of animal soul, allowing us to check what they understood by animal soul, whether they thought of qualitative and functional difference between animal soul and human soul, or whether soul was rather an entity displaying a similar nature in all living beings...