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1 online resource (453 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I The language of fluidity -- 1 Fluid vocabulary: flux in the lexicon of bodily emissions -- Part II A woman in flux -- 2 A valid excuse for a day off work: menstruation in an ancient Egyptian village -- 3 Uterine bleeding, knowledge, and emotion in ancient Greek medical and magical representations -- 4 Puellae gently glow: scent, sweat, and the real in Latin love elegy and Ovid's didactic works |
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5 Overflowing bodies and a Pandora of ivory: the pure humours of an erotic surrogate -- Part III Erotic and generative fluids -- 6 The eyes have it: from generative fluids to vision rays -- 7 'Infertile' and 'sub-fertile' semen in the Hippocratic Corpus and the biological works of Aristotle -- 8 Say it with fluids: what the body exudes and retains when Juvenal's couple relationships go awry -- 9 Flabby flesh and foetal formation: body fluidity and foetal sex differentiation in ancient Greek medicine -- 10 One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing the fluid economy of ancient generation |
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11 Phalli fighting with fluids: approaching images of ejaculating phalli in the Roman world -- Part IV Nutritive and healthy fluids -- 12 A natural symbol? The (un)importance of blood in early Greek literary and religious contexts -- 13 Taste and the senses: Galen's humours clarified -- 14 Breastmilk, breastfeeding, and the female body in early Imperial Rome -- 15 Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena: early Christian stories of lactation in context -- Part V Dissolving and liquefying bodies -- 16 Tears and the leaky vessel: permeable and fluid bodies in Ovid and Lucretius |
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17 Seneca's corpus: a sympathy of fluids and fluctuations -- 18 Bodily fluids, grotesque imagery, and poetics in Persius' Satires -- Part VI Wounded and putrefying bodies -- 19 'Efflux is my manifestation': positive conceptions of putrefactive fluids in the ancient Egyptian coffin texts -- 20 The physiology of matricide: revenge and metabolism imagery in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- 21 Open wounds, liquid bodies, and melting selves in early Imperial Latin literature -- Part VII Ancient fluids: afterlife and reception |
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22 The reception of classical constructions of blood in Medieval and Early Modern martyrologies -- 23 'Expelling the purple tyrant from the citadel': the menstruation debate in book 2 of Abraham Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex (1662) -- 24 Opening the body of fluids: taking in and pouring out in Renaissance readings of classical women -- Envoi -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Body fluids -- History -- To 1500
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Civilization, Classical.
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Civilization, Western -- Classical influences.
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Body fluids
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Civilization, Classical
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Civilization, Western -- Classical influences
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Leonard, Victoria
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Totelin, Laurence
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| ISBN |
9780429798603 |
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0429798601 |
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