Bodily fluids in antiquity. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, Laurence Totelin.
• Editors: Bradley, Mark, 1977-; Leonard, Victoria; Totelin, Laurence M. V
• Contents: List of figures List of tables Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence Totelin Part I The language of fluidity 1. Fluid vocabulary: flux in the lexicon of bodily emissions Amy Coker Part II A woman in flux 2. A valid excuse for a day off work: menstruation in an ancient Egyptian village Rosalind Janssen 3. Uterine bleeding, knowledge, and emotion in ancient Greek medical and magical representations Irene Salvo 4. Puellae gently glow: scent, sweat, and the real in Latin love elegy and Ovid’s didactic works Jane Burkowski 5. Overflowing bodies and a Pandora of ivory: the pure humours of an erotic surrogate Catalina Popescu Part III Erotic and generative fluids 6. The eyes have it: from generative fluids to vision rays Julie Laskaris 7. ‘Infertile’ and ‘sub-fertile’ semen in the Hippocratic Corpus and the biological works of Aristotle Rebecca Fallas 8. Say it with fluids: what the body exudes and retains when Juvenal’s couple relationships go awry Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet 9. Flabby flesh and foetal formation: body fluidity and foetal sex differentiation in ancient Greek medicine Tara Mulder 10. One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation Rebecca Flemming 11. Phalli fighting with fluids: approaching images of ejaculating phalli in the Roman world Adam Parker Part IV Nutritive and healthy fluids 12. A natural symbol? The (un)importance of blood in early Greek literary and religious contexts Emily Kearns ; 13. Taste and the senses: Galen’s humours clarified John Wilkins 14. Breastmilk, breastfeeding, and the female body in early Imperial Rome Thea Lawrence 15. Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena: early Christian stories of lactation in context Laurence Totelin Part V Dissolving and liquefying bodies 16. Tears and the leaky vessel: permeable and fluid bodies in Ovid and Lucretius Peter Kelly 17. Seneca’s corpus : a sympathy of fluids and fluctuations Michael Goyette 18. Bodily fluids, grotesque imagery, and poetics in Persius’ Satires Andreas Gavrielatos Part VI Wounded and putrefying bodies 19. ‘Efflux is my manifestation’: positive conceptions of putrefactive fluids in the ancient Egyptian coffin texts Tasha Dobbin-Bennett 20. Physiology of matricide: revenge and metabolism imagery in Aeschylus’ Oresteia Goran Vidovi ć 21. Open wounds, liquid bodies, and melting selves in Early Imperial Latin literature Assaf Krebs Part VII Ancient fluids: afterlife and reception 22. The reception of Classical constructions of blood in Medieval and Early Modern martyrologies Anastasia Stylianou 23. ‘Expelling the purple tyrant from the citadel’: the menstruation debate in book 2 of Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum libri sex (1662) Caroline Spearing ; 24. Opening the body of fluids: taking in and pouring out in Renaissance readings of Classical women Helen King Envoi Mark Bradley and Victoria Leonard Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 612.01522; Body fluids -- History -- To 1500; Civilization, Classical; Civilization, Western -- Classical influences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429798597; 9780429798603; 9780429438974
• Related ISBNs: 9781138343726
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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