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The History Written on the Classical Greek Body (Hardcover)
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The History Written on the Classical Greek Body (Hardcover)
Series: The Wiles Lectures
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This book challenges historians to come to terms with the
distortions that they systematically introduce into their work by
their reliance on what has been written on paper without looking at
what was and was not written on the body. This book is concerned
with the ways in which texts relating to classical Greece, and in
particular to classical Athens, classified people and with the
extent to which those classifications could be seen by the eye. It
compares the qualities distinguished in texts to those
distinguished in sculpture and painted pottery, and emphasises the
frequent invisibility of the categories upon which historians have
laid most stress - the citizen, the free person, the foreigner,
even the god. The frequent impossibility of seeing who belonged to
which category has major political, social and theological
implications which are explored here, as well as potentially
revolutionary implications for all future historical writing.
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