Full Description
First Published in 2004. The seventeenth-century physician John Bulwer's book, better known by its neologistic classical title Anthropometamorphosis, 'humanitychanging', provided the inspiration for a conference held in the Classics Department at Warwick University in April 1994. The papers delivered there are the nucleus of this collection.
Contents
List of plates, List of figures, List of journal abbreviations, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, Dominic Montserrat, Part I: Perfect Bodies, Imperfect Bodies, 2. Disabling Bodies, Nicholas Vlahogiannis, 3. The Dynamics of Beauty in Classical Greece, Richard Hawley, Part II: Bodies and Signs in Latin Literature, 4. Exuvias effigiemque: Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign, Angus Bowie, 5. Bodies in Flux: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Penelope Murray, Part III: Modifying the Early Christian Body, 6. Bodies and blood: Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity, and resurrection, Gillian Clark, 7. Reading the Disjointed Body in Coptic: from physical modification to textual fragmentation, Terry Wilfong, Part IV: The Ancient Body's Trajectory through Time, 8. The Irresistible Body and the Seduction of Archaeology, Lynn Meskell, 9. Unidentified Human Remains: mummies and the erotics of biography, Dominic Montserrat, 10. Nacktleben, Jane Stevenson
