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Title:

A cultural history of the human body in antiquity / edited by Daniel H. Garrison.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Human body--History--History--To 1500.
Human body in popular culture--History--To 1500.
Human body--History.--Greece--History.
Human body--History.--Rome--History.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Classical.
Human body in popular culture.
Human body--Social aspects.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
To 1500
History.

Other Authors:

Garrison, Daniel H., editor of compilation.

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford : Berg Publishers, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-360) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Marc Mastrangelo. The self from Homer to Charlemagne / Valerie M. Hope -- Health and disease / Patrick MacFarlane -- Sex / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Medical knowledge and technology / Brooke Holmes -- Popular beliefs about the human body in antiquity / Page duBois -- Reflections on erotic desire in Archaic and Classical Greece / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Marked bodies : gender, race, class, age, disability, and disease / Brooke Holmes -- Marked bodies : divine, human, and bestial / Marguerite Johnson -- The body of a hero : images of Herakles and their political use in antiquity / Amalia Avramidou -- The self from Homer to Charlemagne / Marc Mastrangelo.

Series:

A cultural history of the human body ; Volume 1

ISBN:

1472554620
9781472554628

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857981439

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)