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Author:

Bartsch, Shadi, 1966-

Title:

The mirror of the self : sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire / Shadi Bartsch.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

viii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Reflection (Philosophy)--History.
Self-knowledge, Theory of--History.
Sex--History.
Philosophy, Ancient.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-312) and index.

Contents:

The mirror of philosophy -- The incentive to virtue -- The index of vanity -- The mirror of the soul -- The eye of the lover -- Ancient optics -- Eros and the eye -- Ovid's Narcissus -- Hostius quadra -- Scopic paradigms at Rome -- Under the imago -- The penetrating gaze -- Senatorial safeguards -- The philosopher's body -- The self on display -- Seneca's witness -- The philosopher's theater -- The metamorphosis of persona -- Models of personhood -- The second-order self -- Rethinking reflexivity -- Medea's Meditatio.

ISBN:

9780226038353 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226038351 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62393035

LCCN:

2005033447

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)