The History Written on the Classical Greek Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History Written on the Classical Greek Body write by Robin Osborne. This book was released on 2011-07-07. The History Written on the Classical Greek Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shows that history written on the basis of texts alone creates a misleading picture of classical Greece.
Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece
Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece write by Mireille M. Lee. This book was released on 2015-01-12. Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece. Whereas many scholars have focused on individual aspects of ancient Greek dress, from the perspectives of literary, visual, and archaeological sources, this volume synthesizes the diverse evidence and offers fresh insights into this essential aspect of ancient society. Intended to be accessible to nonspecialists as well as classicists, and students as well as academic professionals, this book will find a wide audience.
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine write by Shigehisa Kuriyama. This book was released on 2023-10-17. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An illuminating account of how early medicine in Greece and China perceived the human body Winner of the William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so? In this book, Shigehisa Kuriyama explores this fundamental question, elucidating the fascinating contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. Revealing how perceptions of the body and conceptions of personhood are intimately linked, his comparative inquiry invites us, indeed compels us, to reassess our own habits of feeling and perceiving.
Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art
Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art write by Andrew Stewart. This book was released on 2008-10-20. Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addresses the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art, its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact.
Defining Beauty
Defining Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defining Beauty write by Ian Dennis Jenkins. This book was released on 2015. Defining Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Greek sculpture is full of breathing vitality and yet, at the same time, it reaches beyond mere imitation of nature to give form to thought in works of timeless beauty. For over 2000 years the Greeks experimented with representing the human body in works that range from prehistoric abstract simplicity to the full-blown realism of the age of Alexander the Great. The ancient Greeks invented the modern idea of the human body in art as an object of sensory delight and as a bearer of meaning. Their vision has had a profound influence on the way the western world sees itself. Drawing on the British Museum's outstanding collection of Greek sculpture - including extraordinary pieces from the Parthenon and the celebrated representation of a discus thrower - and through a number of themed sections, this richly illustrated book explores the Greek portrayal of human character in sculpture, along with sexual and social identity. In athletics, the male body was displayed as if it was a living sculpture, and victors were commemorated by actual statues. In art, not only were mortal men and women represented in human form but also the gods and other beings of myth and the supernatural world. In a series of lively introductory chapters, written by a selection of academics, historians and artists, it is revealed how the Greeks themselves viewed the sculpture (which was vividly enhanced with colour), and how it was regarded and treated in later pagan antiquity. The revival of the Greek body in the modern era is also discussed, including the shock of the new effect of the arrival of the Parthenon sculptures in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
