Changing bodies, changing meanings : studies on the human body in antiquity / edited by Dominic Montserrat.

Contributor(s):

Montserrat, Dominic, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585452970
9780585452975
0203436679
9780203436677
9780415135849
0415135842
9786610109760
6610109761
1280109769
9781280109768
1134778864
9781134778867
1134778856
9781134778850

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Changing bodies, changing meanings.DDC classification:

809/.9336 21

LOC classification:

PN56.B62 C48 1998eb

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Contents:

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.

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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and indexes.

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

English.

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