Bodies and boundaries in Graeco-Roman antiquity
This volume examines the ways in which bodies, lived and imagined, were implicated in issues of cosmic order and social organisation in Graeco-Roman antiquity. It focuses on the body in performance (especially in a rhetorical context), the erotic body, the dressed body, pagan and Christian bodies as...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter
2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34671031*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- A. Introduction
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- The Body in Antiquity: A Very Select Bibliography
- B. The Body in Performance
- Sermo corporis: Ancient Reflections on gestus, vultus and vox
- Bodies and Topographies in Ancient Stylistic Theory
- Paying Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople
- C. The Erotic Body
- Man as Monster: Eros and Hubris in Plato8217;s Symposium
- Corpus erat: Sulpicia8217;s Elegiac Text and Body in Ovid8217;s Pygmalion Narrative (Metamorphoses 10.238-297)
- Transsexuals and Transvestites in Ovid8217;s Metamorphoses
- D. The Dressed Body
- Body-Modification in Classical Greece
- 8220;Clothes Make the Man8221;: Dressing the Roman Freedman Body
- E. Pagan and Christian Bodies
- The Female Body in Late Antiquity: Between Virtue, Taboo and Eroticism
- Early Christian and Judicial Bodies
- F. Animal Bodies and Human Bodies
- Shifting Species: Animal and Human Bodies in Attic Vase Painting in the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C.
- Exemplary Animals: Greek Animal Statues and Human Portraiture
- Index locorum.
