Changing bodies, changing meanings : studies on the human body in antiquity /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Montserrat, Dominic, 1964- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of journal abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Perfect Bodies, Imperfect Bodies
- 2. Disabling Bodies
- 3. The Dynamics of Beauty in Classical Greece
- Part II. Bodies and Signs in
- 4. Exuvias effigiemque: Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign
- 5. Bodies in Flux: Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Part III. Modifying the Early
- 6. Bodies and blood: Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity, and resurrection
- 7. Reading the Disjointed Body in Coptic: from physical modification to textual fragmentation
- Part IV. The Ancient Body's Trajectory through Time
- 8. The Irresistible Body and the Seduction of Archaeology
- 9. Unidentified Human Remains: mummies and the erotics of biography
- 10. Nacktleben