The History Written On The Classical Greek Body
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Author | : Robin Osborne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2011-07-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107003202 |
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Shows that history written on the basis of texts alone creates a misleading picture of classical Greece.
Author | : Mireille M. Lee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2015-01-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1316194957 |
Download Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece. Whereas many scholars have focused on individual aspects of ancient Greek dress, from the perspectives of literary, visual, and archaeological sources, this volume synthesizes the diverse evidence and offers fresh insights into this essential aspect of ancient society. Intended to be accessible to nonspecialists as well as classicists, and students as well as academic professionals, this book will find a wide audience.
Author | : Shigehisa Kuriyama |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2023-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0942299930 |
Download The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An illuminating account of how early medicine in Greece and China perceived the human body Winner of the William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so? In this book, Shigehisa Kuriyama explores this fundamental question, elucidating the fascinating contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. Revealing how perceptions of the body and conceptions of personhood are intimately linked, his comparative inquiry invites us, indeed compels us, to reassess our own habits of feeling and perceiving.
Author | : Andrew Stewart |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-10-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521853214 |
Download Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Addresses the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art, its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact.
Author | : Andrew F. Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521456807 |
Download Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The body was central to the visual culture of ancient Greece, reflecting an obsession with physical beauty, integrity, dynamism, and power. In this penetrating study, Andrew Stewart analyses the problem of the Greeks' strange preoccupation with nakedness and sketches how artworks filter our understanding of the subject. Exploring selected constructions of gender, ranging from the men of the Parthenon frieze to naked girls on Spartan hand-mirrors, Stewart investigates the Greek body as a microcosm of society, focusing upon figurations of the Athenian body politic; erotica for men and women; and selected representations of the Other, such as Gorgons, Satyrs, Centaurs, and Amazons. A cultural, theoretical and sociological study of this seminal topic, Stewart's analysis offers new insights into the society and mentality of the ancient Greeks.
Author | : James I. Porter |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780472087792 |
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Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity
Author | : Brooke Holmes |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2010-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400834880 |
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The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional story of the rise of body-soul dualism in ancient Greece. Brooke Holmes demonstrates that as the body (sôma) became a subject of physical inquiry, it decisively changed ancient Greek ideas about the meaning of suffering, the soul, and human nature. By undertaking a new examination of biological and medical evidence from the sixth through fourth centuries BCE, Holmes argues that it was in large part through changing interpretations of symptoms that people began to perceive the physical body with the senses and the mind. Once attributed primarily to social agents like gods and daemons, symptoms began to be explained by physicians in terms of the physical substances hidden inside the person. Imagining a daemonic space inside the person but largely below the threshold of feeling, these physicians helped to radically transform what it meant for human beings to be vulnerable, and ushered in a new ethics centered on the responsibility of taking care of the self. The Symptom and the Subject highlights with fresh importance how classical Greek discoveries made possible new and deeply influential ways of thinking about the human subject.
Author | : Michael Squire |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0857738569 |
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The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first concerted attempt to grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship between Graeco-Roman images of the body and subsequent western engagements with them, from the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and back again). Instead of approaching his material chronologically, Michael Squire faces up to its inherent modernity. Writing in a lively and accessible style, and supplementing his text with a rich array of pictures, he shows how Graeco-Roman images inhabit our world as if they were our own. The Art of the Body offers a series of comparative and thematic accounts, demonstrating the range of cultural ideas and anxieties that were explored through the figure of the body both in antiquity and in the various cultural landscapes that came afterwards. If we only strip down our aesthetic investment in the corpus of Graeco-Roman imagery, Squire argues, this material can shed light on both ancient and modern thinking. The result is a stimulating process of mutual illumination - and an exhilarating new approach to Classical art history.
Author | : Robin Osborne |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691177678 |
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How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth century. Did Greek potters have a different world to see—or did they come to see the world differently? In this lavishly illustrated and engagingly written book, Robin Osborne argues that these remarkable changes are the best evidence for the shifting nature of classical Greek culture. Osborne examines the thousands of surviving Athenian red-figure pots painted between 520 and 440 BC and describes the changing depictions of soldiers and athletes, drinking parties and religious occasions, sexual relations, and scenes of daily life. He shows that it was not changes in each activity that determined how the world was shown, but changes in values and aesthetics. By demonstrating that changes in artistic style involve choices about what aspects of the world we decide to represent as well as how to represent them, this book rewrites the history of Greek art. By showing that Greeks came to see the world differently over the span of less than a century, it reassesses the history of classical Greece and of Athenian democracy. And by questioning whether art reflects or produces social and political change, it provokes a fresh examination of the role of images in an ever-evolving world.
Author | : Erik Nis Ostenfeld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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