Book ID: CBB000080816

Constructions of the classical body (1999)

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Porter, James I. (Editor)


University of Michigan Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: viii + 397 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Porter, James I.: Introduction. Henderson, John: Smashing bodies: The Corinthian Tydeus and Ismene Amphora (Louvre E640). Zeitlin, Froma I.: Reflections of erotic desire in archaic and classical Greece. Carson, Anne: Dirt and desire: The phenomenology of female pollution in antiquity. Kurke, Leslie: Pindar and the prostitutes, or Reading ancient “pornography.” Humphreys, S.C.: From a grin to a death: The body in the Greek discovery of politics. Sissa, Giulia: Sexual bodybuilding: Aeschines against Timarchus. Potter, David S.: Odor and power in the Roman Empire. Richlin, Amy: Cicero's head. Barton, Carlin A.: The Roman blush: The delicate matter of self-control. Downing, Eric: Anti-Pygmalion: The Praeceptor in Ars amatoria, Book 3. Edwards, Catharine: The suffering body: Philosophy and pain in Seneca's Letters. King, Helen: Chronic pain and the creation of narrative. Gleason, Maud W.: Truth contests and talking corpses. Lamberton, Robert: Sweet honey in the rock: Pleasure, embodiment, and metaphor in late-antique Platonism. Hexter, Ralph: Ovid's body. Wyke, Maria: Herculean muscle!: The classicizing rhetoric of bodybuilding.


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Authors & Contributors
Papparella, Franca C.
Bernarduzzi, Lidia Falomo
Merlicco, Michele
Betti, Marco
Chadwick Irarrázaval, Maria Teresa
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Journals
Journal of Medical Biography
Nuova Rivista di Storia della Medicina
Medicina Historica
Studi dellaportiani
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Hegel Jahrbuch
Publishers
L'Erma di Bretschneider
Northeastern University
Leuven University Press
Éditions BHMS
Concepts
Human anatomy
Anatomy
Medicine
Medicine and art
Science and art
Wax modeling
People
Vesalius, Andreas
Collignon, Charles
Nanula, Antonio
Sterne, Lawrence
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista
Fludd, Robert
Time Periods
Early modern
19th century
Renaissance
Modern
20th century
18th century
Places
Italy
Calabria
Naples (Italy)
London (England)
France
China
Institutions
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
University of Cambridge (UK)
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