Visualizing the Invisible With the Human Body: Physiognomy and Ekphrasis in the Ancient World - Couverture rigide

 
9783110618266: Visualizing the Invisible With the Human Body: Physiognomy and Ekphrasis in the Ancient World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3110618265 ISBN 13 : 9783110618266
Editeur : De Gruyter, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

J. Cale Johnson, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; Alessandro Stavru, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3110618265
ISBN 13 
9783110618266
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
507
Éditeur
Johnson J. Cale, Stavru Alessandro
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