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.
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