Constructions of the classical body / edited by James I. Porter.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1999], ©1999.

viii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

This book originated at a conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, held at the University of California, Irvine, in 1990.

Smashing bodies : Corinthian Tydeus and Ismene Amphora / John Henderson -- Reflections on erotic desire in archaic and classical Greece / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Dirt and desire : phenomenology of female pollution in antiquity / Anne Carson -- Pindar and the prostitutes, or reading ancient "pornography" / Leslie Kurke -- From a grin to death : the body in Greek discovery of politics / S. C. Humphreys -- Sexual bodybuilding : aeschines against Timarchus / Guilia Sissa -- Odor and power in the Roman Empire / David S. Potter -- Cicero's head / Amy Richlin -- Roman blush : delicate matter of self-control / Carlin A. Barton -- Anti-pygmalion : Praeceptor in Ars Amatoria, book 3 / Eric Downing -- Suffering body : philosophy and pain in Seneca's letters / Catharine Edwards -- Chronic pain and the creation of narrative / Helen King -- Truth contests and talking corpses / Maud W. Gleason -- Sweet honey in the rock : pleasure, embodiment, and metaphor in late-antique platonism / Robert Lamberton -- Ovid's body / Ralph Hexter -- Herculean muscle : classicizing rhetoric of bodybuilding / Maria Wyke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.