Changing bodies, changing meanings : studies on the human body in antiquity /

This beautifully illustrated book is the first to place at its centre the emotional and experiential aspect of the body in antiquity.

Chi tiết về thư mục
Tác giả khác: Montserrat, Dominic, 1964-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Mục lục:
  • Introduction / Dominic Montserrat
  • pt. 1. Perfect bodies, imperfect bodies: Disabling bodies / Nicholas Vlahogiannis. The dynamics of beauty in classical Greece / Richard Hawley
  • pt. 2. Bodies and signs in Latin literature: Exuvias effigiemque : Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign / Angus Bowie. Bodies in flux : Ovid's Metamorphoses / Penelope Murray
  • pt. 3. Modifying the early Christian body: Bodies and blood : Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity and resurrection / Gillian Clark. Reading the disjointed body in Coptic : from physical modification to textual fragmentation / Terry Wilfong
  • pt. 4. The ancient body's trajectory through time: The irresistible body and the seduction of archaeology / Lynn Meskell. Unidentified human remains : mummies and the erotics of biography / Dominic Montserrat. Nacktleben / Jane Stevenson.