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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Simon Swain. pt. I. Antiquity. Physiognomy and ancient psychological theory / George Boys-Stone
- Polemon's Physiognomy / Simon Swain
- Physiognomics: art and text / Jaś Elsner. pt. II. Islam. The Islamic background to Polemon's treatise / Robert Hoyland
- The semiotic paradigm: physiognomy and medicine in Islamic culture / Antonella Ghersetti
- Polemon's Physiognomy in the Arabic tradition / Antonella Ghersetti with Simon Swain. pt. III. Texts and translations. A new edition and translation of the Leiden Polemon / Robert Hoyland
- The Istanbul Polemon (TK Recension): edition and translation of the introduction / Antonella Ghersetti
- The Physiognomy of Adamantius the Sophist / Ian Repath
- Anonymus Latinus, Book of Physiognomy / Ian Repatyh. Appendix: The Physiognomy attributed to Aristotle / Simon Swain.