0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE

Buy Now

Visualizing the invisible with the human body - Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,975
Discovery Miles 39 750
Visualizing the invisible with the human body - Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world (Hardcover): J Cale Johnson,...

Visualizing the invisible with the human body - Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world (Hardcover)

J Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru

Series: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R3,975 Discovery Miles 39 750 | Repayment Terms: R373 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient's external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological 'types' that had emerged in the Hellenistic period. This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.

General

Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
Release date: November 2019
First published: 2020
Editors: J Cale Johnson • Alessandro Stavru
Dimensions: 240 x 170mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-061826-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Promotions
LSN: 3-11-061826-5
Barcode: 9783110618266

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium…
Tom Moore, Xose-Lois Armada Hardcover R8,064 Discovery Miles 80 640
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture
Elise A Friedland, Melanie Grunow Sobocinski, … Hardcover R5,916 Discovery Miles 59 160
Statius, Thebaid 2 - Edited with an…
Kyle Gervais Hardcover R5,751 Discovery Miles 57 510
Religions of the Constantinian Empire
Mark Edwards Hardcover R1,988 Discovery Miles 19 880
The Global History of Paleopathology…
Jane Buikstra, Charlotte Roberts Hardcover R7,784 Discovery Miles 77 840
The Oxford Handbook of Plato
Gail Fine Hardcover R5,886 Discovery Miles 58 860
The Epistle to Diognetus (with the…
Clayton N. Jefford Hardcover R7,019 Discovery Miles 70 190
Polytheism and Society at Athens
Robert Parker Hardcover R6,667 Discovery Miles 66 670
Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus…
Luca Grillo Hardcover R3,842 Discovery Miles 38 420
A Commentary on Livy Books 41-45
John Briscoe Hardcover R11,414 Discovery Miles 114 140
Traversing Eternity - Texts for the…
Mark Smith Hardcover R10,233 Discovery Miles 102 330
Monumentality and the Roman Empire…
Edmund Thomas Hardcover R11,302 Discovery Miles 113 020

See more

Partners