caa a22 4500 388106247 CHVBK 20180307125338.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632310 doi S007542690001867X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632310 Heath John Santa Clara University Disentangling the beast: humans and other animals in Aeschylus' Oresteia [Elektronische Daten] [John Heath] The Greeks of the polis, most of them with hands dirty from the earth and animals they worked with and struggled against every day, knew that there was a thin line that separated their own humanity from the life of the beast. Hesiod provides the first explicit testimony to the difference between the two worlds: But you, Perses, deliberate on this in your heart (φρεσί) and listen now to right (δίκη), forgetting violence (βίη) altogether. For the son of Cronus drew up this law for men, that fish and beasts and flying birds eat one another, since right (δίκη) is not in them. But to mankind he gave right (δίκη) which is by far the best. For if anyone knows the right (τὰ δί καια) and is willing to speak it (ἀγορεῦσαι) to him far-seeing Zeus gives prosperity. (WD 274-81) Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1999 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 119(1999-11), 17-47 0075-4269 119<17 1999 119 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632310 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632310 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Heath John Santa Clara University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 119(1999-11), 17-47 0075-4269 119<17 1999 119 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge