This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across Empi

This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity - votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human body. It c

The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.

In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and anima

Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from ge