Disabilities in Roman antiquity
Subtitle: disparate bodies, a capite ad calcem
By: edited by Christian Laes, Chris Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
Series: Mnemosyne, supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity -- Volume 356
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9789004248311; 9789004251250
Subjects: Medical archaeology; History; People with disabilities; Greek and Roman Medicine; People with mental disabilities
Other titles: Brill e-books.
Description: "This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem, from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies. The authors fully engage with literary, papyrological, and epigraphical sources, while iconography and osteo-archaeology are taken into account. Also the late ancient evidence is taken into account. Refraining from a radical constructionist standpoint, the contributors acknowledge the possibility of discovering significant differences in the way impairment was culturally viewed or assessed"--Back cover.
Notes: Subtitle also reads as: Disparate bodies, from head to toe.

Includes index.