Sight and the Ancient Senses examines the sense that greek and Roman antiquity theorized
above all others. approaching vision from a range of different thematic angles, the book …

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List of Illustrations--Acknowledgments--1 Introduction: Fragments of History--Scholarship on …

Scholars have long emphasized the importance of scripture in studying religion, tacitly
separating a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including …

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the
material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as" classical" and as" art" …

Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion.
Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external …

This book challenges widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process,
about ancient Greek medicine) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the …

The first part of this chapter surveys the sanctuaries of the Greco‐Roman deities who were
traditionally thought of as presiding over illness and healing, while the second part …

This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and
communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused …

Asclepius was one of the most popular healing deities in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Patients
suffering from various diseases resorted to his sanctuaries, the so-called asclepieia, looking …

This book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of
medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and …