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Gods display similar and dissimilar nonverbal behaviors.
Scholars may elucidate ancient communicative bodylore. Characters in Homer, Euripides, and Horace and Petronius, and images on Athenian painted pottery and portraiture in Hellenistic Egypt, Pompeii, Rome, and Constantinople convey different kinds of selves. Historical and documentary texts also, such as Herodotus and Tacitus, legionary tombstone reliefs, and statues of nobiles claim status by nonverbal signs. Ancient patterns of interaction diverge from Euro-American models. Classicists can investigate the available information and alter the map of ancient anger and shame, humiliation and delight, and confusion and satisfaction.