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List of illustrations | p. vii |
Preface | p. xiii |
List of abbreviations | p. xv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Writing history on the classical body | p. 6 |
The history incorporated in words, and the history embodied in images | p. 6 |
The words have a Greek for them | p. 18 |
The appearance of the classical Greelk body | p. 27 |
Greek athletics and the Greek body | p. 27 |
The medical writers' body | p. 37 |
The sculpted body | p. 40 |
Drawing on the body | p. 44 |
Bodies of thought | p. 52 |
The distinguished body | p. 55 |
Distinguishing bodies in red-figure pottery | p. 57 |
Distinguished men and distinguished women on gravestones | p. 65 |
Social distinction? | p. 75 |
The citizen body | p. 85 |
The citizenship debate | p. 85 |
Aristode and the classical concept of the citizens | p. 88 |
Citizenship terminology in classical Greece | p. 92 |
The invisible citizen body | p. 105 |
Foreign bodies | p. 124 |
Dirty bodies | p. 158 |
Godsbodies | p. 185 |
Describing godsbodies | p. 185 |
The theology of godsbodies | p. 189 |
The history of godsbodies | p. 194 |
The Pheidian revolution and the alternatives | p. 203 |
Telling bodies | p. 216 |
References | p. 231 |
Index | p. 249 |
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