Fögen / Lee Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-021253-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, “barbarians” and “civilized” people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices.
This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to examine the ways in which bodies, lived and imagined, were implicated in issues of cosmic order and social organisation in classical antiquity. It focuses on the body in performance (especially in a rhetorical context), the erotic body, the dressed body, pagan and Christian bodies as well as divine bodies and animal bodies.
The articles draw on a range of evidence and approaches, cover a broad chronological and geographical span, and explore the ways bodies can transgress and dissolve, as well shore up, or even create, boundaries and hierarchies. This volume shows that boundaries are constantly negotiated, shifted and refigured through the practices and potentialities of embodiment.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fögen, Thorsten

Lee, Mireille M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Editors’ Preface;6
2;Table of Contents;8
3;Introduction;10
4;The Body in Antiquity: A Very Select Bibliography;20
5;Sermo corporis: Ancient Reflections on gestus, vultus and vox;24
6;Bodies and Topographies in Ancient Stylistic Theory;54
7;Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople;72
8;Man as Monster: Eros and Hubris in Plato’s Symposium;96
9;Corpus erat: Sulpicia’s Elegiac Text and Body in Ovid’s Pygmalion Narrative ( Met. 10.238- 297);120
10;Transsexuals and Transvestites in Ovid’s Metamorphoses;134
11;Body-Modification in Classical Greece;164
12;“Clothes Make the Man”: Dressing the Roman Freedman Body;190
13;The Female Body in Late Antiquity: Between Virtue, Taboo and Eroticism;224
14;Early Christian and Judicial Bodies;246
15;Shifting Species: Animal and Human Bodies in Attic Vase Painting of the 6th and 5th Centuries B. C.;270
16;Exemplary Animals: Greek Animal Statues and Human Portraiture;292
17;Index locorum;320

Über Autor(innen)

Thorsten Fögen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Mireille M. Lee, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.