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Title Changing bodies, changing meanings : studies on the human body in antiquity / edited by Dominic Montserrat
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Dominic Montserrat -- pt. 1. Perfect bodies, imperfect bodies: Disabling bodies / Nicholas Vlahogiannis. The dynamics of beauty in classical Greece / Richard Hawley -- pt. 2. Bodies and signs in Latin literature: Exuvias effigiemque : Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign / Angus Bowie. Bodies in flux : Ovid's Metamorphoses / Penelope Murray -- pt. 3. Modifying the early Christian body: Bodies and blood : Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity and resurrection / Gillian Clark. Reading the disjointed body in Coptic : from physical modification to textual fragmentation / Terry Wilfong -- pt. 4. The ancient body's trajectory through time: The irresistible body and the seduction of archaeology / Lynn Meskell. Unidentified human remains : mummies and the erotics of biography / Dominic Montserrat. Nacktleben / Jane Stevenson
Summary This beautifully illustrated book is the first to place at its centre the emotional and experiential aspect of the body in antiquity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Human body in literature.
Human body -- History -- Social aspects
Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Human body in literature
Human body -- Social aspects
Literature, Ancient
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Montserrat, Dominic, 1964-
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