Visualizing the invisible with the human body : Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world

Visualizing the invisible with the human body Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world

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 externa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cale Johnson, J. (Editor), Johnson, J. Cale, editor (editor), Stavru, Alessandro, editor
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020
Berlin ; Boston : [2019]
Colección:Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
Materias:
750-1258
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
History of science
Griechenland > Altertum
Indien
Mesopotamien
Römisches Reich
Physiognomy Description Ekphrasis
Literary collections.
Early works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction to "Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world"
  • 1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia
  • 2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy
  • 3. Umṣatu in omen and medical texts: An overview
  • 4. The series Šumma Ea liballiṭka revisited
  • 5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy
  • 6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic
  • 7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor
  • 8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics
  • 9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics
  • 10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the 'ethnographicising' register in the second sophistic
  • 11. Representing the insane
  • 12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative
  • 13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian "Secret of Secrets"
  • 14. Ekphrasis of a manuscript (MS London, British Library, Or. 12070). Is the "London Physiognomy" a fake or a "semi-fake," and is it a witness to the Secret of Secrets (Sirr al-Asrār) or to one of its sources?
  • 15. A lost Greek text on physiognomy by Archelaos of Alexandria in Arabic translation transmitted by Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī: An edition and translation of the fragments with glossaries of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions
  • Index

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