Changing bodies, changing meanings : studies on the human body in antiquity
1998, 1st edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #389515
ISBN: 0415135842
Physical description: xvi, 234 pages : illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and indexes. 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. Subjects: Ancient; Human body in literature; Human body History Social aspects; Literature, Ancient History and criticism; Literature, Ancient; Classical literature; Human body Symbolic aspects; Body figure in literature; Antiquity; Ancient World; Human biology, cultural responses to : archaeology; Human Body history; Body Image history.
Price: €125.00