Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society

This richly illustrated volume brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects.

List of contents

Preface; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Kings and the Civic Elite; 1 The Body Language of Hellenistic Kings; 2 The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Men; 3 The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Women; Part II: Lower Status Groups; 4 The Body Language of 'Genre' Figures; 5 The Body Language of 'Grotesques'; Part III: Synthesis; 6 Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society; Appendix 1: The Mime 'problem'; Appendix 2: The Body Language of Sitting; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Jane Masséglia is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Classics and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Summary

This richly illustrated volume brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Masseglia, Jane Masséglia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2015
• EAN: 9780198723592
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872359-2
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation; Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult; Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology