Title: Changing bodies, changing meanings : studies on the human body in antiquity /
Authors: Montserrat, Dominic, 1964-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Human body History Social aspects.; Human body in literature.; Literature, Ancient History and criticism.; Human Body history.; Body Image history.
Contents: 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.