Body Language In The Greek And Roman Worlds
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Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Author | : Douglas Cairns |
Publsiher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2005-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781910589649 |
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A distinguished cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the construction of facial expression in Greek and Roman epic; the significance of gesture and body language in the visual meaning of ancient sculpture; the evidence for gesture and performance style in the texts of ancient drama; the erotic significance of feet and footprints; and the role of gesture in Roman law. The volume seeks to apply a sense of history as well as of theory in interpreting non-verbal communication. It looks both at the cross-cultural and at the culturally specific in its treatment of this important but long-neglected aspect of Classical Studies.
Gender and Body Language in Roman Art
Author | : Glenys Davies |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521842730 |
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Analysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society.
Rabbinic Body Language Non Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
Author | : Catherine Hezser |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2017-01-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004339064 |
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In Rabbinic Body Language Catherine Hezser examines the literary representation of non-verbal communication within rabbinic circles and in encounters with others in Palestinian rabbinic documents of late antiquity.
Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z
Author | : Glenys Davies,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2007-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781134589166 |
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First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco Roman Antiquity
Author | : Thorsten Fögen,Mireille M. Lee |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2010-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110212532 |
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In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, “barbarians” and “civilized” people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices. This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to examine the ways in which bodies, lived and imagined, were implicated in issues of cosmic order and social organisation in classical antiquity. It focuses on the body in performance (especially in a rhetorical context), the erotic body, the dressed body, pagan and Christian bodies as well as divine bodies and animal bodies. The articles draw on a range of evidence and approaches, cover a broad chronological and geographical span, and explore the ways bodies can transgress and dissolve, as well shore up, or even create, boundaries and hierarchies. This volume shows that boundaries are constantly negotiated, shifted and refigured through the practices and potentialities of embodiment.
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity
Author | : Mary Harlow |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781350114036 |
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Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to clothing across the ancient world. Covering the period 500 BCE to 800 CE and drawing on sources ranging from extant garments and architectural iconography to official edicts and literature, this volume reveals Antiquity's preoccupation with dress, which was matched by an appreciation of the processes of production rarely seen in later periods. From a courtesan's sheer faux-silk garb to the sumptuous purple dyes of an emperor's finery, clothing was as much a marker of status and personal expression as it was a site of social control and anxiety. Contemporary commentators expressed alarm in equal measure at the over-dressed, the excessively ascetic or at 'barbarian' silhouettes. Richly illustrated with 100 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.
The Style of Gestures
Author | : Guillemette Bolens |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2012-05-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781421405186 |
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With a foreword by well-known neuroscientist Alain Berthoz, The Style of Gestures convincingly makes the case that embodied cognition is essential to the reception, understanding, and enjoyment of art and literature.
Laughter in Ancient Rome
Author | : Mary Beard |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2024-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520401495 |
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What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing--from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book--Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient "monkey business" to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really "get" the Romans' jokes?