Disabilities in Roman antiquity : disparate bodies, a capite ad calcem /

Disabilities in Roman antiquity : disparate bodies, a capite ad calcem /

This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem , from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders, hermaphroditism, mon...

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Other Authors: Laes, Christian., Goodey, C. F., Rose, Martha L., 1957-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 356.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Medicine, Greek and Roman > History.
People with mental disabilities > Rome > History.
People with disabilities > Rome > History.
Medical archaeology.

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Call Number: R135 .D57 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • Christian Laes , C.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose
  • Approaching Disabilities a Capite ad Calcem: Hidden Themes in Roman Antiquity /
  • Christian Laes , C.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose
  • Mental States, Bodily Dispositions and Table Manners: A Guide to Reading 'Intellectual' Disability from Homer to Late Antiquity /
  • C.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose
  • Psychiatric Disability and the Galenic Medical Matrix /
  • Patricia A. Clark and M. Lynn Rose
  • Two Historical Case Histories of Acute Alcoholism in the Roman Empire /
  • Danielle Gourevitch and Gilles Demigneux
  • Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome /
  • Lisa Trentin
  • A Nexus of Disability in Ancient Greek Miracle Stories: A Comparison of Accounts of Blindness from the Asklepieion in Epidauros and the Shrine of Thecla in Seleucia /
  • Cornelia B. Horn
  • Silent History? Speech Impairment in Roman Antiquity /
  • Christian Laes
  • Monstrous Births and Retrospective Diagnosis: The Case of Hermaphrodites in Antiquity /
  • Lutz Alexander Graumann
  • What's in a Monster? Pliny the Elder, Teratology and Bodily Disability /
  • Bert Gevaert and Christian Laes
  • A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical Images of Philip II and Other Wounded Kings /
  • Évelyne Samama
  • Disparate Lives or Disparate Deaths? Post-Mortem Treatment of the Body and the Articulation of Difference /
  • Emma-Jayne Graham
  • Disparate Bodies in Ancient Artefacts: The Function of Caricature and Pathological Grotesques among Roman Terracotta Figurines /
  • Alexandre G. Mitchell
  • Indexes /
  • Christian Laes , C.F. Goodey and M. Lynn Rose.