Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion

ISBN-13: 9781316610428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 233 str.

Jessica Hughes

Opis

This book analyses hundreds of votive body parts to examine how ideas about the human body changed throughout classical antiquity.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: fragments of history; 2. Fragmentation as metaphor: anatomical votives in Classical Greece, fifth-fourth centuries BC; 3. Under the skin: anatomical votives in Republican Italy, fourth-first centuries BC; 4. The anxiety of influence: anatomical votives in Roman Gaul, first century BC-first century AD; 5. Punishing bodies: the Lydian and Phrygian 'propitiatory' stelai, second-third centuries AD; Afterword: revisiting fragmentation.