Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 10
List of figures......Page 11
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
List of abbreviations......Page 16
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
DISABLING BODIES......Page 30
THE DYNAMICS OF BEAUTY IN CLASSICAL GREECE......Page 54
EXUVIAS EFFIGIEMQUE: DIDO, AENEAS AND THE BODY AS SIGN......Page 74
BODIES IN FLUX: OVID'S METAMORPHOSES......Page 97
BODIES AND BLOOD: LATE ANTIQUE DEBATE ON MARTYRDOM, VIRGINITY AND RESURRECTION......Page 116
READING THE DISJOINTED BODY IN COPTIC: FROM PHYSICAL MODIFICATION TO TEXTUAL FRAGMENTATION......Page 133
THE IRRESISTIBLE BODY AND THE SEDUCTION OF ARCHAEOLOGY......Page 156
UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS: MUMMIES AND THE EROTICS OF BIOGRAPHY......Page 179
NACKTLEBEN......Page 215
Bibliography......Page 230
General index......Page 244
Index of ancient sources......Page 248