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Rhetoric and Animal Studies Rhetoric and Animal Studies
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Animals, Sensation, and Rhetoric Animals, Sensation, and Rhetoric
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Pan-Historiography Pan-Historiography
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A dog walks into the middle of Aristotle’s Rhetoric. It is not a specific dog—this is no Argos, Odysseus’s gentle and loyal pet—but rather a generic dog, an example. In fact there is more than one dog, a pack, hoi kunes, generalized as a type. These dogs are calm, perceptive, responsive. They appear in Aristotle’s discussion of calmness, defined as “a settling down and quieting of anger.” “Even dogs,” Aristotle writes, “show that anger ceases toward those who humble themselves, for they do not bite those sitting down.”1Close
Both George Kennedy and J. H. Freese append notes to their translations of this passage, citing the scene from the Odyssey in which Odysseus “sank to the ground at once” on suddenly being charged by “snarling dogs … a shatter of barks.” Odysseus, sings the poet, sat down knowingly and with characteristic cunning, for “he knew the trick.”2Close Freese’s note on the Rhetoric passage is largely contextual, verifying Aristotle’s assertion as commonplace knowledge about canine behavior, but Kennedy’s note is more overtly cautionary: “In Odyssey 14.29–38 Odysseus tries this strategy when attacked by dogs. As in that case, it probably should not be counted on to work unless the dog’s master is nearby.”3Close Apart from the dubious generalization about canines, what is this cross-species encounter doing at nearly the center of a treatise long considered foundational for rhetoric, an art thought by most to be distinctly human-to-human?
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