Visualizing the invisible with the human body : physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world

Weitere Verfasser: Johnson, J. Cale.
Stavru, Alessandro , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Boston, MA : De Gruyter, 2019.
Ausgabe: 1st edition.
Umfang/Format: vi, 501 pages ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ;
Parallelausgabe: Visualizing the invisible with the human body (Online version)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction to "Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world" / Johnson, J. Cale / Stavru, Alessandro
  • Part I: Mesopotamia and India
  • 1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia / Johnson, J. Cale
  • 2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy / Zysk, Kenneth
  • 3. Umsatu in omen and medical texts: An overview / Salin, Silvia
  • 4. The series Summa Ea liballitka revisited / Schmidtchen, Eric
  • 5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy / Schreiber, Marvin
  • Part II: Classical Antiquity
  • 6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic / Stavru, Alessandro
  • 7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor / Cianci, Dorella
  • 8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics / Marcucci, Laetitia
  • 9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics / Chiai, Gian Franco
  • 10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the 'ethnographicising' register in the second sophistic / Lampinen, Antti
  • 11. Representing the insane / Gerolemou, Maria
  • Part III: Semitic traditions
  • 12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative / Crawford, Cory
  • 13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian "Secret of Secrets" / Forster, Regula
  • 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-Asrar) or to one of its sources? / Cottrell, Emily
  • 15. A lost Greek text on physiognomy by Archelaos of Alexandria in Arabic translation transmitted by Ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashqi: An edition and translation of the fragments with glossaries of the G

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