Bodily fluids in antiquity /

Bodily fluids in antiquity / / edited by Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence Totelin.

"From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought. Comprising 25 chapters across seven key th...

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Flemming, Rebecca
TeilnehmendeR:
Bradley, Mark, 1977-
Leonard, Victoria,
Totelin, Laurence M. V.,
Place / Publishing House:Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2021.
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (453 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I The language of fluidity
  • 1 Fluid vocabulary: flux in the lexicon of bodily emissions
  • Part II A woman in flux
  • 2 A valid excuse for a day off work: menstruation in an ancient Egyptian village
  • 3 Uterine bleeding, knowledge, and emotion in ancient Greek medical and magical representations
  • 4 Puellae gently glow: scent, sweat, and the real in Latin love elegy and Ovid's didactic works
  • 5 Overflowing bodies and a Pandora of ivory: the pure humours of an erotic surrogate
  • Part III Erotic and generative fluids
  • 6 The eyes have it: from generative fluids to vision rays
  • 7 'Infertile' and 'sub-fertile' semen in the Hippocratic Corpus and the biological works of Aristotle
  • 8 Say it with fluids: what the body exudes and retains when Juvenal's couple relationships go awry
  • 9 Flabby flesh and foetal formation: body fluidity and foetal sex differentiation in ancient Greek medicine
  • 10 One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing the fluid economy of ancient generation
  • 11 Phalli fighting with fluids: approaching images of ejaculating phalli in the Roman world
  • Part IV Nutritive and healthy fluids
  • 12 A natural symbol? The (un)importance of blood in early Greek literary and religious contexts
  • 13 Taste and the senses: Galen's humours clarified
  • 14 Breastmilk, breastfeeding, and the female body in early Imperial Rome
  • 15 Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena: early Christian stories of lactation in context
  • Part V Dissolving and liquefying bodies
  • 16 Tears and the leaky vessel: permeable and fluid bodies in Ovid and Lucretius
  • 17 Seneca's corpus: a sympathy of fluids and fluctuations.
  • 18 Bodily fluids, grotesque imagery, and poetics in Persius' Satires
  • Part VI Wounded and putrefying bodies
  • 19 'Efflux is my manifestation': positive conceptions of putrefactive fluids in the ancient Egyptian coffin texts
  • 20 The physiology of matricide: revenge and metabolism imagery in Aeschylus' Oresteia
  • 21 Open wounds, liquid bodies, and melting selves in early Imperial Latin literature
  • Part VII Ancient fluids: afterlife and reception
  • 22 The reception of classical constructions of blood in Medieval and Early Modern martyrologies
  • 23 'Expelling the purple tyrant from the citadel': the menstruation debate in book 2 of Abraham Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex (1662)
  • 24 Opening the body of fluids: taking in and pouring out in Renaissance readings of classical women
  • Envoi
  • Index.

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