The presumed dichotomy between a Greco-Roman paradigm of Western humanism and new theoretical currents in the humanities is exploded in this volume, which explores the myriad ways in which Greek and Roman philosophy and literature can be understood as foregrounding the non-human rather than simply reflecting the ideals of classical humanism.

Frontmatter List of Contributors 1: Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes: Introduction Part 1: Posthuman Antiquities? 2: Adriana Cavarero: The Human Reconceived: Back to Socrates with Arendt 3: Ramona Naddaff: Hearing Voices: The Sounds in Socrates's Head 4: Michael Naas: Song and Dance Man: Plato and the Limits of the Human 5: Miriam Leonard: Precarious Life: Tragedy and the Posthuman Part 2: Alternate Zoologies 6: Sara Brill: Aristotle's Meta-zoology: Shared Life and Human Animality in the Politics 7: Kristin Sampson: Sounds of Subjectivity or Resonances of Something Other 8: Mark Payne: Shared Life as Chorality in Schiller, Hölderlin, and Hellenistic Poetry 9: Giulia Sissa: Apples and Poplars, Nuts and Bulls: The Poetic Biosphere of Ovid's Metamorphoses Part 3: Anthro-excentric 10: James I. Porter: Hyperobjects, OOO, and the Eruptive Classics - Field Notes of an Accidental Tourist 11: Emanuela Bianchi: Nature Trouble: Ancient Phusis and Queer Performativity 12: Brooke Holmes: On Stoic Sympathy: Cosmobiology and the Life of Nature 13: Rebecca Hill: Immanent Maternal: Figures of Time in Aristotle, Bergson, and Irigaray 14: Claudia Baracchi: In Light of Eros Endmatter Index

The book is recommended reading for anyone interested in contemporary continental philosophy and the ancient world. It includes thought-provoking and surprising...openings for approaching antiquity from posthuman perspectives. The collection succeeds in showing that ancient texts are blooming with non-human life.

Offers the first sustained engagement between the theories and methodologies of posthumanism and the "new materialisms" and ancient Greek and Roman thought Explodes the uncritical assumption that ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature evince monolithic support of humanism Draws on rigorous and ground-breaking analyses of canonical texts and thinkers to reveal how they contribute to and problematize contemporary theorizing about the human and the posthuman Forges a new transdisciplinary path through questions pertaining to the ontological status of living beings, the political valence of gender, and the ethical agency of animals, plants, and objects Creates a new scholarly paradigm at the intersection of antiquity and modern theory, opening up myriad new avenues for research

Emanuela Bianchi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature with affiliations in Classics and Gender and Sexuality Studies at New York University. She works at the intersection of ancient Greek philosophy and literature, French and German nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, and feminist and queer theory. She is the author of The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos (Fordham University Press, 2014), and has published numerous articles in journals including Hypatia, The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Philosophy Today, Epochê, and Angelaki. She is currently at work on a manuscript provisionally entitled Emergence and Concealment: Nature, Hegemony, Kinship. Sara Brill is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, where she has also served as Chair of the Classical Studies Program. She works on the psychology, politics, and zoology of Plato and Aristotle, as well as contemporary feminist and political theory. She is the author of Plato on the Limits of Human Life (Indiana University Press, 2013) and has published numerous articles on Plato, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, and the Hippocratic corpus. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life, forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Brooke Holmes is Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her research centres on ancient medicine and life science, Greek literature (especially Homer and tragedy), ancient philosophy, reception studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy. She is the author of The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece (Princeton University Press, 2010) and Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy (I. B. Tauris and OUP, 2012) and has co-edited four books, including the experimental publication Liquid Antiquity (DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2017), which was accompanied by an exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. She is currently at work on a book entitled The Tissue of the World: Sympathy and the Concept of Nature in Greco-Roman Antiquity and directs the research network Postclassicisms.

Offers the first sustained engagement between the theories and methodologies of posthumanism and the "new materialisms" and ancient Greek and Roman thought Explodes the uncritical assumption that ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature evince monolithic support of humanism Draws on rigorous and ground-breaking analyses of canonical texts and thinkers to reveal how they contribute to and problematize contemporary theorizing about the human and the posthuman Forges a new transdisciplinary path through questions pertaining to the ontological status of living beings, the political valence of gender, and the ethical agency of animals, plants, and objects Creates a new scholarly paradigm at the intersection of antiquity and modern theory, opening up myriad new avenues for research