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A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity
Contributor(s): Garrison, Daniel H. (Editor)

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ISBN: 1472554620     ISBN-13: 9781472554628
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
OUR PRICE: $43.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology
- History | Social History
Dewey: 306.461
Series: Cultural Histories
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.7" W x 9.5" L (1.65 lbs) 392 pages
Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated
 
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A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity explores 1,750 years of the history of the West, from Homer to the end of the first millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of Greek civilization, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire until its collapse in the 5th Century CE, and Medieval Europe up to the transition to the High Middle Ages. Key issues include the invention of the nude as a cultural icon, the early development of Western medicine, and formative discourses about the identity and ethical management of the body.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.

 
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