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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
Ed. by Johnson, J. Cale / Stavru, Alessandro
Series:Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 10

Open Access

Frontmatter

Pages I-IV

Contents

Pages V-VI

Introduction to “Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world”

Cale Johnson, J. / Stavru, Alessandro
Pages 1-8

Part I: Mesopotamia and India

1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia

Cale Johnson, J.
Pages 11-40

2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy

Zysk, Kenneth
Pages 41-60

3. Umṣatu in omen and medical texts: An overview

Salin, Silvia
Pages 61-80

4. The series Šumma Ea liballiṭka revisited

Schmidtchen, Eric
Pages 81-118

5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy

Schreiber, Marvin
Pages 119-140

Part II: Classical Antiquity

6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic

Stavru, Alessandro
Pages 143-160

7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor

Cianci, Dorella
Pages 161-182

8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics

Marcucci, Laetitia
Pages 183-202

9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics

Chiai, Gian Franco
Pages 203-226

10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the ‘ethnographicising’ register in the second sophistic

Lampinen, Antti
Pages 227-270

11. Representing the insane

Gerolemou, Maria
Pages 271-282

Part III: Semitic traditions

12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative

Crawford, Cory
Pages 285-320

13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian “Secret of Secrets”

Forster, Regula
Pages 321-346

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?

Cottrell, Emily
Pages 347-442

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

Thomann, Johannes
Pages 443-484

Index

Pages 485-502
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