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Index
Cover
Half-title Page
Dedication Page
Also available from Bloomsbury
Title Page
Contents
Copyright Acknowledgements
Prelude
1 The Eatingest Epic
I Supper in the Odyssey
II A Good Meal as an Affirmation of Transience
III Helen’s Opiate
IV The Vital Importance of Stories
V The Odyssey as a Story about a Storyteller
VI Identity and Names
VII Recognitions
VIII The Shades in Hades
IX Justice in the Odyssey
X The Odyssey as an Affirmation of Life
Interlude
2 Dionysus
I Euripides’ Bacchae
II The Dionysian Journey of Lawrence Osborne
III William James as a Dionysian
IV Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
Interlude
3 Socrates
I The Symposium
II Socrates’ Metaphorical Feast
III Recollection in Plato’s Phaedo
IV Christianity: Spiritual Nourishment
V Homer’s Nightmare: Soylent
Interlude
4 Aristotle
I The Four Issues of This Book
II Aristotle as Zoologist
III Form as Species
IV Aristotle as Apollinian
V The Nutritive Psuchê
VI The Perceptive Psuchê
VII The Generation of Animals
VIII Aristotle’s Intellect
IX Is the Psuchê Immortal?
X What Is Knowing?
XI The Fractured Psuchê
Postlude
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright Page
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