Seeing the face, seeing the soul : Polemon's Physiognomy from classical antiquity to medieval Islam /
Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Arabic Griego Latín |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy. - ;Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character from appearanc. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 699 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-690) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781429491914 1429491914 9780191569494 0191569496 |