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 …

Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these
topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of …

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 …

The human body is full of fluids. Up to 60 percent of it is made up of water, nearly three-
quarters in the brain and heart, more in the lungs, muscles and kidneys; even our bones are …

According to some of the first studies of ancient disability, physical impairments were viewed
by the communities of Antiquity as a metaphor for divine punishment (Garland 1995; …

There are conspicuously few representations of disability, and none of the severely
disabled, in the entire repertoire of Roman art. Even the god Hephaestus/Vulcan, famously …

Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often
monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from …

Non-sedentary cultures have existed on the scholarly fringes and historiographical outskirts
of the art-historical canon: there they remain to this day, buried between dated opposites like …

Studies of early modern images of witchcraft interpret the motif of hybrid creatures as
representations of demonic incarnations intended in part to demonstrate the artists' inventive …

THE world of Ovid's Metamorphoses is a world of monsters-some new and some old. Like
the fertile earth following the cataclysmic flood described in the poem's opening Book, Ovid's …