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1 online resource (ix, 699 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction / Simon Swain. pt. I. Antiquity. Physiognomy and ancient psychological theory / George Boys-Stone -- Polemon's Physiognomy / Simon Swain -- Physiognomics: art and text / Jaś Elsner. pt. II. Islam. The Islamic background to Polemon's treatise / Robert Hoyland -- The semiotic paradigm: physiognomy and medicine in Islamic culture / Antonella Ghersetti -- Polemon's Physiognomy in the Arabic tradition / Antonella Ghersetti with Simon Swain. pt. III. Texts and translations. A new edition and translation of the Leiden Polemon / Robert Hoyland -- The Istanbul Polemon (TK Recension): edition and translation of the introduction / Antonella Ghersetti -- The Physiognomy of Adamantius the Sophist / Ian Repath -- Anonymus Latinus, Book of Physiognomy / Ian Repatyh. Appendix: The Physiognomy attributed to Aristotle / Simon Swain |
| Summary |
Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy. - ;Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character from appearanc |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-690) and index |
| Notes |
Includes excerps from the original text in Arabic, Greek, and Latin |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
880-01 Polemo, Antonius, approximately 88-145. Physiognomy
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880-01/(S Πολέμων, π. 88-145. Φυσιογνωμικά |
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Polemo, Antonius, approximately 88-145 Physiognomica |
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Polemon, Marcus Antonius 90-145 De Pysiognomonia liber |
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Physiognomy -- History
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Physiognomy.
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Islam -- history
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Physiognomy
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Psychological Theory
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physiognomy.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- General.
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Physiognomy
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Literatur
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Physiognomik
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Fysiognomiek.
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Arabisch.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Swain, Simon.
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Boys-Stones, G. R.
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| ISBN |
9781429491914 |
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1429491914 |
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9780191569494 |
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0191569496 |
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