Book ID: CBB001036041

Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (2007)

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Swain, Simon (Editor)
Boys-Stones, G. R. (Editor)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: ix + 699 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Fabio Stok (2010) Review of "Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam". Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology (pp. 186-187). unapi

Review Tatum, W. Jeffrey (2009) Review of "Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam". Classical Review (p. 424). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Repath, Ian (2007) The Physiognomy of Adamantius the Sophist. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Repatyh, Ian (2007) Anonymus Latinus, Book of Physiognomy. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Swain, Simon (2007) The Physiognomy Attributed to Aristotle. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Swain, Simon (2007) Polemon's Physiognomy. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Elsner, Jas (2007) Art and Text. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Hoyland, Robert (2007) The Islamic Background to Polemon's Treatise. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Ghersetti, Antonella (2007) Physiognomy and Medicine in Islamic Culture. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Ghersetti, Antonella; Swain, Simon (2007) Polemon's Physiognomy in the Arabic Tradition. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Hoyland, Robert (2007) A New Edition and Translation of the Leiden Polemon. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Ghersetti, Antonella (2007) The Istanbul Polemon. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Swain, Simon (2007) Introduction. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

Chapter Boys-Stones, George (2007) Physiognomy and Ancient Psychological Theory. In: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rashed, Roshdi
Burnett, Charles
Ragab, Ahmed
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit
Sivin, Nathan
Russell, G. A.
Journals
Studi dellaportiani
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
The Review of Metaphysics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Science in Context
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Publishers
Warburg Institute
Walter de Gruyter
University of Chicago Press
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Princeton University Press
Edwin Mellen Press
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Medicine
Islam
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Mathematics
Physiognomy
People
Spinoza, Baruch
Plato
Philo of Alexandria
Origen
Hipparchos of Rhodes
Della Porta, Giovan Battista
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
Early modern
Renaissance
Modern
Enlightenment
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Italy
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
England
Institutions
Cambridge University
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