Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity

Daniel Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University and is author of Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece, The Student's Catullus, and The Language of Virgil.

The excellent quality of the studies presented here can only be praised and valued.

• IntroductionDaniel H. Garrison (Northwestern University, USA)1 "The End is to the Beginning as the Beginning is to the End": Birth, Death, and the Classical Body Valerie M. Hope (Open University, UK)2 Health and Disease Patrick MacFarlane (Providence College, Rhode Island, USA)3 Sex Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona in Tucson, USA)4 Medical Knowledge and Technology Brooke Holmes (Princeton University, USA)5 Popular Beliefs about the Human Body in Antiquity Page duBois (University of California, San Diego, USA)6 Reflections on Erotic Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece Froma I. Zeitlin (Princeton University, USA)7 Marked Bodies: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability, and Disease Brooke Holmes (Princeton University, USA)8 Marked Bodies: Divine, Human, and Bestial Marguerite Johnson (The University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA)9 The Body of a Hero: Images of Herakles and Their Political Use in Antiquity Amalia Avramidou (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM)10 The Self from Homer to Charlemagne Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA)Notes Bibliography Contributors Index