The History Written On The Classical Greek Body
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The History Written on the Classical Greek Body
Author | : Robin Osborne |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2011-07-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107003200 |
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Shows that history written on the basis of texts alone creates a misleading picture of classical Greece.
Constructions of the Classical Body
Author | : James I. Porter |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0472087797 |
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Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity
Body Dress and Identity in Ancient Greece
Author | : Mireille M. Lee |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2015-01-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107055360 |
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This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece. Whereas many scholars have focused on individual aspects of ancient Greek dress, from the perspectives of literary, visual, and archaeological sources, this volume synthesizes the diverse evidence and offers fresh insights into this essential aspect of ancient society.
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Author | : Shigehisa Kuriyama |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2023-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780942299939 |
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An illuminating account of how early medicine in Greece and China perceived the human body Winner of the William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so? In this book, Shigehisa Kuriyama explores this fundamental question, elucidating the fascinating contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. Revealing how perceptions of the body and conceptions of personhood are intimately linked, his comparative inquiry invites us, indeed compels us, to reassess our own habits of feeling and perceiving.
The Transformation of Athens
Author | : Robin Osborne |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691177670 |
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How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth century. Did Greek potters have a different world to see—or did they come to see the world differently? In this lavishly illustrated and engagingly written book, Robin Osborne argues that these remarkable changes are the best evidence for the shifting nature of classical Greek culture. Osborne examines the thousands of surviving Athenian red-figure pots painted between 520 and 440 BC and describes the changing depictions of soldiers and athletes, drinking parties and religious occasions, sexual relations, and scenes of daily life. He shows that it was not changes in each activity that determined how the world was shown, but changes in values and aesthetics. By demonstrating that changes in artistic style involve choices about what aspects of the world we decide to represent as well as how to represent them, this book rewrites the history of Greek art. By showing that Greeks came to see the world differently over the span of less than a century, it reassesses the history of classical Greece and of Athenian democracy. And by questioning whether art reflects or produces social and political change, it provokes a fresh examination of the role of images in an ever-evolving world.
Women s Bodies in Classical Greek Science
Author | : Lesley Dean-Jones |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : UOM:39015033323349 |
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Dean-Jones (classics, U. of Texas) analyzes theories about women's bodies in such authors as Hippocrates and Aristotle, not only offering her own insights but also assembling a body of literature that has previously been scattered or even unpublished. She finds that menstruation was the center of thought about women's bodies, which affected medical practice on men as well as women. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Greek History
Author | : Robin Osborne,University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow and Tutor Robin Osborne |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2004-07-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781134371884 |
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An accessible introduction for first year undergraduates to Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age (c.1200 BC) to the Roman conquest of Greece in the second century BC.
Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion
Author | : Esther Eidinow,Julia Kindt,Robin Osborne |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2016-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107153479 |
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This book does away once and for all with the assumption that only religions of the book think systematically about god(s).