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The History Written on the Classical Greek Body
Contributor(s): Osborne, Robin (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107003202     ISBN-13: 9781107003200
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $114.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient - Greece
Dewey: 938.007
LCCN: 2011008370
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" L (1.55 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 03/01/2012
 
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Publisher Description:
This book challenges historians to come to terms with the distortions that they systematically introduce into their work by their reliance on what has been written on paper without looking at what was and was not written on the body. This book is concerned with the ways in which texts relating to classical Greece, and in particular to classical Athens, classified people and with the extent to which those classifications could be seen by the eye. It compares the qualities distinguished in texts to those distinguished in sculpture and painted pottery, and emphasises the frequent invisibility of the categories upon which historians have laid most stress - the citizen, the free person, the foreigner, even the god. The frequent impossibility of seeing who belonged to which category has major political, social, and theological implications which are explored here.

Contributor Bio(s): Osborne, Robin: - Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow and Senior Tutor of King's College and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research ranges broadly across Greek history, Greek archaeology and the history of Greek art. Along with numerous edited and coedited volumes, he has written Demos: The Discovery of Classical Attika (Cambridge University Press, 1985), Classical Landscape with Figures: The Ancient Greek City and its Countryside (1987), Greece in the Making, 1200 479 BC (1996, 2nd edition 2009), Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998) and Greek History (2004). A collection of his papers has been published as Athens and Athenian Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2010). This book was written as a contribution to a project on 'Changing Beliefs of the Human Body' funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
 
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