Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings

Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-13584-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

First Published in 2004. The seventeenth-century physician John Bulwer’s book, better known by its neologistic classical title Anthropometamorphosis, ‘humanitychanging’, provided the inspiration for a conference held in the Classics Department at Warwick University in April 1994. The papers delivered there are the nucleus of this collection.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Montserrat, Dominic

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of plates, List of figures, List of journal abbreviations, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, Dominic Montserrat, Part I: Perfect Bodies, Imperfect Bodies, 2. Disabling Bodies, Nicholas Vlahogiannis, 3. The Dynamics of Beauty in Classical Greece, Richard Hawley, Part II: Bodies and Signs in Latin Literature, 4. Exuvias effigiemque: Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign, Angus Bowie, 5. Bodies in Flux: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Penelope Murray, Part III: Modifying the Early Christian Body, 6. Bodies and blood: Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity, and resurrection, Gillian Clark, 7. Reading the Disjointed Body in Coptic: from physical modification to textual fragmentation, Terry Wilfong, Part IV: The Ancient Body's Trajectory through Time, 8. The Irresistible Body and the Seduction of Archaeology, Lynn Meskell, 9. Unidentified Human Remains: mummies and the erotics of biography, Dominic Montserrat, 10. Nacktleben, Jane Stevenson

Über Autor(innen)

Dominic Montserrat is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick.