Bodies of evidence
ancient anatomical votives past, present and future
Draycott, Jane (Jane Louise)
editor.
Graham, Emma-Jayne
editor.
text
bibliography
enk
London
New York, NY
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
2017
monographic
eng
xiv, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
1. Corpora in Connection: Anatomical Votives and the Confession Stelai of Lydia and Phrygia / Justine Potts -- 2. Partible Humans and Permeable Gods: Anatomical Votives and Personhood in the Sanctuaries of Central Italy / Emma-Jayne Graham -- 3. Anatomical Votives (and Swaddled Babies): from Republican Italy to Roman Gaul / Olivier de Cazanove -- 4. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Use of Real, False and Artificial Hair as Votive Offerings / Jane Draycott -- 5. Demeter as an Ophthalmologist? Eye Votives and the Cult of Demeter and Kore / Georgia Petridou -- 6. Wombs for the Gods / Rebecca Flemming -- 7. Ritual and Meaning: Contextualising Votive Terracotta Infants in Hellenistic Italy / Fay Glinister -- 8. The foot as gnÅrisma / Sara Chiarini -- 9. The Open Man: Anatomical Votive Busts Between the History of Medicine and Archaeology / Laurent Haumesser -- 10. Fragmentation and the Body's Boundaries: Reassessing the Body in Parts / Ellen Adams -- 11. Votive Genitalia in the Wellcome Collection: Modern Receptions of Ancient Sexual Anatomy / Jen Grove -- 12. Votive Futures: an Afterword / Jessica Hughes.
edited by Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, Emma-Jayne Graham, the Open University.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.
Votive offerings
Greece
Votive offerings
Rome
Human body
Miscellanea
Greece
Religion
Rome
Religion
292.3/7
Medicine and the body in antiquity
9781472450807
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2016029146
DLC
171012
20230105092243.0
208298
eng