Description
Book SynopsisDaniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University, USA and is author of
Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece,
The Student's Catullus and
The Language of Virgil. He is currently working on an annotated translation of Vesalius'
On the Fabric of the Human Body.
Table of ContentsIllustrations Series Preface Introduction Daniel H. Garrison, Northwestern University, USA 1 "The End is to the Beginning as the Beginning is to the End": Birth, Death, and the Classical Body Valerie M. Hope, Open University, UK 2 Health and Disease Patrick MacFarlane, Providence College, Rhode Island, USA 3 Sex Marilyn B. Skinner, University of Arizona in Tucson, USA 4 Medical Knowledge and Technology Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, USA 5 Popular Beliefs about the Human Body in Antiquity Page duBois, University of California, San Diego, USA 6 Reflections on Erotic Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University, USA 7 Marked Bodies: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability, and Disease Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, USA 8 Marked Bodies: Divine, Human, and Bestial Marguerite Johnson, The University of Newcastle, Australia 9 The Body of a Hero: Images of Herakles and Their Political Use in Antiquity Amalia Avramidou, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 10 The Self from Homer to Charlemagne Marc Mastrangelo, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
