Resumen de ‘Árboles hombres’ desde Homero: sobre su voz y su silencio
The ancient Greeks developed the notion of a real continuity between trees and human beings. Nevertheless, the figure of the talking tree rarely appears, although in this sense the oak of the oracle of Dodona is worth being mentioned. Instead, the silence which is inherent in trees is usually presented as something paradigmatic:
Socrates, for instance, tells Phaedrus that trees do not want to teach him anything at all (Pl. Phdr. 230b). By contrast, Seferis’s poem Astianacte, in his peculiar dialogue with figures belonging to ancient myths, lucidly suggests all the vital knowledge silent trees can provide
