Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity explores 1,750 years of the history of the West, from Homer to the end of the first millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of Greek civilization, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire until its collapse in the 5th Century CE, and Medieval Europe up to the transition to the High Middle Ages. Key issues include the invention of the nude as a cultural icon, the early development of Western medicine, and formative discourses about the identity and ethical management of the body. A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-16
Mått:168 x 244 x 22 mm
Vikt:660 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Histories Series
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472554628

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Daniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University, USA and is author of Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece, The Student's Catullus and The Language of Virgil. He is currently working on an annotated translation of Vesalius' On the Fabric of the Human Body.

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IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroductionDaniel H. Garrison, Northwestern University, USA1 "The End is to the Beginning as the Beginning is to the End": Birth, Death, and the Classical Body Valerie M. Hope, Open University, UK2 Health and Disease Patrick MacFarlane, Providence College, Rhode Island, USA3 Sex Marilyn B. Skinner, University of Arizona in Tucson, USA4 Medical Knowledge and Technology Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, USA5 Popular Beliefs about the Human Body in Antiquity Page duBois, University of California, San Diego, USA6 Reflections on Erotic Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University, USA7 Marked Bodies: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability, and Disease Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, USA8 Marked Bodies: Divine, Human, and Bestial Marguerite Johnson, The University of Newcastle, Australia9 The Body of a Hero: Images of Herakles and Their Political Use in Antiquity Amalia Avramidou, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium10 The Self from Homer to Charlemagne Marc Mastrangelo, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index