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Changing bodies, changing meanings :studies on the human body in antiquity [electronic resource] / - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - 1 online resource, xvi, 234 pages : illustration ;

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Introduction / Dominic Montserrat -- pt. 1. Perfect bodies, imperfect bodies: Disabling bodies / Nicholas Vlahogiannis. The dynamics of beauty in classical Greece / Richard Hawley -- pt. 2. Bodies and signs in Latin literature: Exuvias effigiemque : Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign / Angus Bowie. Bodies in flux : Ovid's Metamorphoses / Penelope Murray -- pt. 3. Modifying the early Christian body: Bodies and blood : Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity and resurrection / Gillian Clark. Reading the disjointed body in Coptic : from physical modification to textual fragmentation / Terry Wilfong -- pt. 4. The ancient body's trajectory through time: The irresistible body and the seduction of archaeology / Lynn Meskell. Unidentified human remains : mummies and the erotics of biography / Dominic Montserrat. Nacktleben / Jane Stevenson

ISBN: 0415135842 0203436679

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human body in literature.
Human body -- History -- Social aspects.
Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism.
Human Body -- history.
Body Image -- history.

Dewey Class. No.: 809.9336