Inventing ancient culture : historicism, periodization and the ancient world / edited by Mark Golden...
Inventing ancient culture : historicism, periodization and the ancient world / edited by Mark Golden...
Inventing ancient culture : historicism, periodization and the ancient world / edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey.
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Date
1997.
Call Numbers
N938/193
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
General Introduction / Mark Golden and Peter Toohey -- 1. Towards a History of Body History / Amy Richlin -- 2. Painters and Pederasts: Ancient Art, Sexuality, and Social History / Martin Kilmer -- 3. Trimalchio's Constipation: Periodizing Madness, Eros, and Time / Peter Toohey -- 4. Philosophy, Fri...
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1997.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern societal and institutional structures, originated in the E...
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Inventing ancient culture : historicism, periodization and the ancient world / edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography: p. 205-238.
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N938/193
Record Identifier
74VvXjrPzR2b
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ISBN
0415099609 (pb)
9780415099592 (hb)
0415099595 (hb)
9780415099608 (pb)
DDC
938
MMS ID
991011121089702626
