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Bodies and boundaries in Graeco-Roman antiquity /

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...

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Други автори: Fogen, Thorsten., Lee, Mireille M.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ℗♭2009.
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Съдържание:
  • 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.