Article ID: CBB859672794

Dysfunctional and pitied? Multiple experiences of being disabled in Ostia Antica and environs (2021)

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This essay fits in the tradition of writing fictional life stories according to the bioarchaeology of personhood model, with much attention for objects, care and anthropological comparison. As a starting point, it takes recent excavations at Ostia and environs. Ever since the nineteenth century, both writers and historians have tried to come closer to the voices of the past by writing faction. This is, however, the first attempt to bring disabled persons from the Roman period to life. The essay tries to do do justice to the multifaceted experiences of disabled people, who were never categorized as such in the ancient world.

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Authors & Contributors
García Alonso, Juan Luis
Laes, Christian
Overwien, Oliver
Baldin, Maurizio
Guichard, Luis Arturo
Elena Zocca
Concepts
Science and literature
Medicine
Poetry and poetics
Hippocratic medicine
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Medicine and literature
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Rome (Italy)
Hellenistic world
Mediterranean region
Italy
Egypt
Alexandria (Egypt)
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