Overview

A Cultural History of The Human Body in Antiquity explores 1,750 years of the history of the West, from Homer to the end of the millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of Greek civilization, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empires until its collapse in the 5th century CE and Medieval Europe up to the transition to the High Middle Ages. Key issues for this period include the invention of the nude as a cultural icon, the early development of Western medicine, and formative discourses about the identity and ethical management of the body. A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and age, cultural representations and popular beliefs and the self and society.

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Author:   Daniel H. Garrison ,  Garrison, Holly ,  Daniel Garrison
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9781847887887

ISBN 10:   1847887880
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

IntroductionDaniel H. Garrison (Northwestern University, USA)1 The End is to the Beginning as the Beginning is to the End : Birth, Death, and the Classical Body Valerie M. Hope (Open University, UK)2 Health and Disease Patrick MacFarlane (Providence College, Rhode Island, USA)3 Sex Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona in Tucson, USA)4 Medical Knowledge and Technology Brooke Holmes (Princeton University, USA)5 Popular Beliefs about the Human Body in Antiquity Page duBois (University of California, San Diego, USA)6 Reflections on Erotic Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece Froma I. Zeitlin (Princeton University, USA)7 Marked Bodies: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability, and Disease Brooke Holmes (Princeton University, USA)8 Marked Bodies: Divine, Human, and Bestial Marguerite Johnson (The University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA)9 The Body of a Hero: Images of Herakles and Their Political Use in Antiquity Amalia Avramidou (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM)10 The Self from Homer to Charlemagne Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA)Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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The excellent quality of the studies presented here can only be praised and valued. * CADMO (Bloomsbury translation) *

The excellent quality of the studies presented here can only be praised and valued. CADMO (Bloomsbury translation)

Author Information

Daniel Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University and is author of Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece, The Student's Catullus, and The Language of Virgil.

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