A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity by Garrison, Daniel H.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472554628)

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A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity by Garrison, Daniel H.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity

$40.95
A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity by Garrison, Daniel H.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity explores 1,750 years of the history of the West, from Homer to the end of the first millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of Greek civilization, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire until its collapse in the 5th Century CE, and Medieval Europe up to the transition to the High Middle Ages. Key issues include the invention of the nude as a cultural icon, the early development of Western medicine, and formative discourses about the identity and ethical management of the body.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.

Author: Daniel H. Garrison
ISBN-10: 1472554620
ISBN-13: 9781472554628
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2014
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.90d
By Daniel H. Garrison
By Daniel H. Garrison
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Daniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University, USA and is author of Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece, The Student's Catullus and The Language of Virgil. He is currently working on an annotated translation of Vesalius' On the Fabric of the Human Body.

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