The History Written on the Classical Greek Body

by Robin Osborne

Book Overview

This book challenges historians to come to terms with the distortions that they systematically introduce into their work by their reliance on what has been written on paper without looking at what was and was not written on the body. This book is concerned with the ways in which texts relating to classical Greece, and in particular to classical Athens, classified people and with the extent to which those classifications could be seen by the eye. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521176700
• ISBN13: 9780521176705
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"