Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity / / ed. by Thorsten Fögen, Mireille M. Lee.
In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, “barbarians” and “civilized” people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of s...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- A. Introduction
- B. The Body in Performance
- Sermo corporis: Ancient Reflections on gestus, vultus and vox
- Bodies and Topographies in Ancient Stylistic Theory
- Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic
- Constantinople
- C. The Erotic Body
- Man as Monster: Eros and Hubris in Plato’s Symposium ∗
- Corpus erat: Sulpicia’s Elegiac Text and Body in Ovid’s Pygmalion Narrative (Met. 10.238-297)
- Transsexuals and Transvestites in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
- D. The Dressed Body
- Body-Modification in Classical Greece
- “Clothes Make the Man”: Dressing the Roman Freedman Body
- E. Pagan and Christian Bodies
- The Female Body in Late Antiquity: Between Virtue, Taboo and Eroticism
- Early Christian and Judicial Bodies
- F. Animal Bodies and Human Bodies
- Shifting Species: Animal and Human Bodies in Attic Vase Painting of the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C.
- Exemplary Animals: Greek Animal Statues and Human Portraiture
- Backmatter