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Nature Embodied : Gesture in Ancient Rome /

"Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event gesticulate with thumbs. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by surviving Ro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Corbeill, Anthony, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2004]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Gesture as a Cultural System
  • Ch. 1. Participatory Gestures in Roman Religious Ritual and Medicine
  • Ch. 2. The Power of Thumbs
  • Ch. 3. Blood, Milk, and Tears: The Gestures of Mourning Women
  • Ch. 4. Political Movement: Walking and Ideology in Republican Rome
  • Ch. 5. Face Facts: Facial Expression and the New Political Order in Tacitus.