Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings - Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity

List of contents

List of plates, List of figures, List of journal abbreviations, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, Dominic Montserrat, Part I: Perfect Bodies, Imperfect Bodies, 2. Disabling Bodies, Nicholas Vlahogiannis, 3. The Dynamics of Beauty in Classical Greece, Richard Hawley, Part II: Bodies and Signs in Latin Literature, 4. Exuvias effigiemque: Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign, Angus Bowie, 5. Bodies in Flux: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Penelope Murray, Part III: Modifying the Early Christian Body, 6. Bodies and blood: Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity, and resurrection, Gillian Clark, 7. Reading the Disjointed Body in Coptic: from physical modification to textual fragmentation, Terry Wilfong, Part IV: The Ancient Body's Trajectory through Time, 8. The Irresistible Body and the Seduction of Archaeology, Lynn Meskell, 9. Unidentified Human Remains: mummies and the erotics of biography, Dominic Montserrat, 10. Nacktleben, Jane Stevenson

About the author

Dominic Montserrat is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick.

Summary

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

Product details

• Assisted by: Dominic Montserrat (Editor), Montserrat Dominic (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.1997
• EAN: 9780415135849
• ISBN: 978-0-415-13584-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 630 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Essays, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation