The mirror of the self
Subtitle: sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire
By: Shadi Bartsch.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Reflection (Philosophy) -- History.; Self-knowledge, Theory of -- History.; Philosophy, Ancient.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mirror of philosophy; title: The incentive to virtue; title: The index of vanity; title: The mirror of the soul; title: The eye of the lover; title: Ancient optics; title: Eros and the eye; title: Ovid's Narcissus; title: Hostius quadra; title: Scopic paradigms at Rome; title: Under the imago; title: The penetrating gaze; title: Senatorial safeguards; title: The philosopher's body; title: The self on display; title: Seneca's witness; title: The philosopher's theater; title: The metamorphosis of persona; title: Models of personhood; title: The second-order self; title: Rethinking reflexivity; title: Medea's Meditatio.