Visualizing the invisible with the human body : Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world /

Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient's externa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, J. Cale (Editor ), Stavru, Alessandro (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Colección:Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ; 10.
Temas:
Literature, Ancient > History and criticism.
Physiognomy in literature.
Ekphrasis.
Human body in literature.
Physiognomy.
Human Body
Physiognomy
History, Ancient
Roman World
Greek World
Littérature ancienne > Histoire et critique.
Physiognomonie dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Physiognomonie.
ekphrasis.
physiognomy.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
History of science.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Ekphrasis
Human body in literature
Literature, Ancient
Physiognomy in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction to "Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world" / Johnson, J. Cale / Stavru, Alessandro
  • Part I: Mesopotamia and India
  • 1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia / Johnson, J. Cale
  • 2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy / Zysk, Kenneth
  • 3. Umṣatu in omen and medical texts: An overview / Salin, Silvia
  • 4. The series Šumma Ea liballiṭka revisited / Schmidtchen, Eric
  • 5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy / Schreiber, Marvin
  • Part II: Classical Antiquity
  • 6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic / Stavru, Alessandro
  • 7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor / Cianci, Dorella
  • 8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics / Marcucci, Laetitia
  • 9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics / Chiai, Gian Franco
  • 10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the 'ethnographicising' register in the second sophistic / Lampinen, Antti
  • 11. Representing the insane / Gerolemou, Maria
  • Part III: Semitic traditions
  • 12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative / Crawford, Cory
  • 13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian "Secret of Secrets" / Forster, Regula
  • 14. Ekphrasis of a manuscript (MS London, British Library, Or. 12070). Is the "London Physiognomy" a fake or a "semi-fake," and is it a witness to the Secret of Secrets (Sirr al-Asrār) or to one of its sources? / Cottrell, Emily
  • 15. A lost Greek text on physiognomy by Archelaos of Alexandria in Arabic translation transmitted by Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī: An edition and translation of the fragments with glossaries of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions / Thomann, Johannes
  • Index

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