The Roman Gaze
Subtitle: Vision, Power, and the Body (Arethusa Books)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801869617
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; Gaze; History; History - General History; Hellenic languages; Ancient Rome; Psychological aspects; Ancient - Rome; History / Ancient / General; Civilization; Ancient and Classical; Rome
First sentence: This entry from Varro's de Lingua Latina purports to explain something essential about how the Romans looked at their world and what they thought about the act of looking itself.