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1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- A. Introduction -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- The Body in Antiquity: A Very Select Bibliography -- B. The Body in Performance -- Sermo corporis: Ancient Reflections on gestus, vultus and vox -- Bodies and Topographies in Ancient Stylistic Theory -- Paying Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople -- C. The Erotic Body -- Man as Monster: Eros and Hubris in Plato8217;s Symposium -- Corpus erat: Sulpicia8217;s Elegiac Text and Body in Ovid8217;s Pygmalion Narrative (Metamorphoses 10.238-297) -- Transsexuals and Transvestites in Ovid8217;s Metamorphoses -- D. The Dressed Body -- Body-Modification in Classical Greece -- 8220;Clothes Make the Man8221;: Dressing the Roman Freedman Body -- E. Pagan and Christian Bodies -- The Female Body in Late Antiquity: Between Virtue, Taboo and Eroticism -- Early Christian and Judicial Bodies -- F. Animal Bodies and Human Bodies -- Shifting Species: Animal and Human Bodies in Attic Vase Painting in the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C. -- Exemplary Animals: Greek Animal Statues and Human Portraiture -- Index locorum. |
Summary |
This volume examines the ways in which bodies, lived and imagined, were implicated in issues of cosmic order and social organisation in Graeco-Roman antiquity. It focuses on the body in performance (especially in a rhetorical context), the erotic body, the dressed body, pagan and Christian bodies as well as divine bodies and animal bodies. The articles draw on a range of evidence and approaches, cover a broad chronological and geographical span, and explore the ways bodies can transgress and dissolve, as well shore up, or even create, boundaries and hierarchies. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects -- Greece.
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Human body -- Social aspects. |
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Greece. |
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Rome.
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Added Author |
Fögen, Thorsten.
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Lee, Mireille M.
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Print version: Bodies and boundaries in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110212525 (DLC) 2009027988 (OCoLC)424499910 |
ISBN |
9783110212532 (electronic book) |
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3110212536 (electronic book) |
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9783110212525 (Cloth) |
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3110212528 (Cloth) |
Standard No. |
9786612714627 |
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