Disabilities in Roman antiquity : disparate bodies, a capite ad calcem / edited by Christian Laes, Chris Goodey, M. Lynn Rose.

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TextSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; ; v. 356.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789004251250
9004251251

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Disabilities in Roman antiquity.DDC classification:

610.938 23

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R135

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2013 I-359
WZ 51

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Contents:

Approaching Disabilities a Capite ad Calcem. Hidden Themes in Roman Antiquity / Christian Laes, C.F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose -- Mental States, Bodily Dispositions and Table Manners: a Guide to Reading 'Intellectual' Disability from Homer to late Antiquity / C.F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose -- Psychiatric Disability in the Galenic Medical Matrix / Patricia A. Clark, M. Lynn Rose -- Two Historical Case Histories of Acute Alcoholism in the Roman Empire / Danielle Gourevitch, with the collaboration of Dr. Gilles Demigneux. Drunkenness, Alcoholism and Ancient History / Christian Laes -- Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome / Lisa Trentin -- A Nexus of Disability in Ancient Greek Miracle Stories: a Comparison of Accounts of Blindness from the Asklepieion in Epidauros and the Shrine of Thecla in Seleucia / Cornelia B. Horn -- Silent History? Speech Impairment in Roman Antiquity / Christian Laes -- Monstrous Births and Retrospective Diagnosis: The Case of Hermaphrodites in Antiquity / Lutz Graumann -- What's in a Monster? Pliny the Elder, Teratology and Bodily Disability / Bert Gevaert, Christian Laes -- A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical Images of Philip II and Other Wounded Kings / Evelyn Samama -- Disparate Lives or Disparate Deaths? Post-Mortem Treatment of the Body and the Articulation of Difference / Emma-Jayne Graham -- Disparate Bodies in Ancient Artefacts: the Function of Caricature and Pathological Grotesques among Roman Terracotta Figurines / Alex Mitchell.

Summary: This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic from head to toe: mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorder, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies.

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Subtitle also reads as: Disparate bodies, from head to toe.

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This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic from head to toe: mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorder, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies.

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