The mirror of the self : sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire / Shadi Bartsch.

  • Bartsch, Shadi, 1966-
Date:
2006
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Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Physical description

viii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-312) and index.

Contents

The mirror of philosophy -- The incentive to virtue -- The index of vanity -- The mirror of the soul -- The eye of the lover -- Ancient optics -- Eros and the eye -- Ovid's Narcissus -- Hostius quadra -- Scopic paradigms at Rome -- Under the imago -- The penetrating gaze -- Senatorial safeguards -- The philosopher's body -- The self on display -- Seneca's witness -- The philosopher's theater -- The metamorphosis of persona -- Models of personhood -- The second-order self -- Rethinking reflexivity -- Medea's Meditatio.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 0226038351
  • 9780226038353