Disability and Healing in Greek and Roman Myth

'Laes' approach is to be commended for condensing the sheer amount of evidence and explaining the complexities of this interdisciplinary field in an engaging and personable style. The book enriches the field and, from it, readers either well-versed in or new to the field will encounter familiar and novel evidence for embodied and metaphysical experiences, which produced different meanings interpreted through a variety of factors and contexts.' Alyce R. Cannon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• Introduction; 1. Setting the scene: disabilities, myths, and religion; 2. Disabled gods and heroes 'from head to toe; 3. Other 'oddities': monsters, twins, dwarfs and old age; 4. Purity and wholesomeness for priests and cultic servants?; 5. The role of Christianity and monotheism; 6. Conclusion: disability as anachronism or analogy?; References.