Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

von: Thorsten Fögen, Mireille M. Lee

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG, 2009

ISBN: 9783110212532 , 325 Seiten

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Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity


 

Editors’ Preface

6

Table of Contents

8

Introduction

10

The Body in Antiquity: A Very Select Bibliography

20

Sermo corporis: Ancient Reflections on gestus, vultus and vox

24

Bodies and Topographies in Ancient Stylistic Theory

54

Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople

72

Man as Monster: Eros and Hubris in Plato’s Symposium

96

Corpus erat: Sulpicia’s Elegiac Text and Body in Ovid’s Pygmalion Narrative ( Met. 10.238- 297)

120

Transsexuals and Transvestites in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

134

Body-Modification in Classical Greece

164

“Clothes Make the Man”: Dressing the Roman Freedman Body

190

The Female Body in Late Antiquity: Between Virtue, Taboo and Eroticism

224

Early Christian and Judicial Bodies

246

Shifting Species: Animal and Human Bodies in Attic Vase Painting of the 6th and 5th Centuries B. C.

270

Exemplary Animals: Greek Animal Statues and Human Portraiture

292

Index locorum

320