Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies A Capite ad CalcemChristian Laes, Chris Goodey, M. Lynn Rose This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem, from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies. The authors fully engage with literary, papyrological, and epigraphical sources, while iconography and osteo-archaeology are taken into account. Also the late ancient evidence is taken into account. Refraining from a radical constructionist standpoint, the contributors acknowledge the possibility of discovering significant differences in the way impairment was culturally viewed or assessed. |
Contents
A Guide | 17 |
Psychiatric Disability in the Galenic Medical Matrix | 45 |
Two Historical Case Histories of Acute Alcoholism in the Roman | 73 |
Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome | 89 |
Silent History? Speech Impairment in Roman Antiquity | 145 |
The Case | 181 |
Whats in a Monster? Pliny the Elder Teratology and Bodily Disability | 211 |
A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical | 231 |
Disparate Lives or Disparate Deaths? PostMortem Treatment of | 249 |
The Function of Caricature | 275 |
Index Locorum | 299 |
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