RT Book
T1 Votive body parts in Greek and Roman religion
T2 Cambridge classical studies
A1 Hughes, Jessica
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/893452483
AB This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity - votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human body. It collects examples from four principal areas and time periods: Classical Greece, pre-Roman Italy, Roman Gaul and Roman Asia Minor. It uses a compare-and-contrast methodology to highlight differences between these sets of votives, exploring the implications for our understandings of how beliefs about the body changed across classical antiquity. The book also looks at how far these ancient beliefs overlap with, or differ from, modern ideas about the body and its physical and conceptual boundaries. Central themes of the book include illness and healing, bodily fragmentation, human-animal hybridity, transmission and reception of traditions, and the mechanics of personal transformation in religious rituals.
AB Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: fragments of history; 2. Fragmentation as metaphor: anatomical votives in Classical Greece, fifth-fourth centuries BC; 3. Under the skin: anatomical votives in Republican Italy, fourth-first centuries BC; 4. The anxiety of influence: anatomical votives in Roman Gaul, first century BC-first century AD; 5. Punishing bodies: the Lydian and Phrygian 'propitiatory' stelai, second-third centuries AD; Afterword: revisiting fragmentation
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Apr 2017)
CN BL795.V6
SN 9781316662403
K1 Votive offerings : Greece.
K1 Votive offerings : Rome.
K1 Human Body : Social aspects.
K1 Human Body : Symbolic aspects.
K1 Human Body : Symbolic aspects
K1 Human Body : Social aspects
K1 Votive offerings : Greece
K1 Votive offerings : Rome
K1 Votive offerings ; Greece
K1 Votive offerings ; Rome
K1 Human body ; Social aspects
K1 Human body ; Symbolic aspects
K1 Greece ; Religion
K1 Rome ; Religion
K1 Greece : Religion.
K1 Rome : Religion.
K1 Greece : Religion
K1 Rome : Religion
DO 10.1017/9781316662403