Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity

Daniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University, USA and is author of Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece, The Student's Catullus and The Language of Virgil. He is currently working on an annotated translation of Vesalius' On the Fabric of the Human Body.

• IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroductionDaniel H. Garrison, Northwestern University, USA1 "The End is to the Beginning as the Beginning is to the End": Birth, Death, and the Classical Body Valerie M. Hope, Open University, UK2 Health and Disease Patrick MacFarlane, Providence College, Rhode Island, USA3 Sex Marilyn B. Skinner, University of Arizona in Tucson, USA4 Medical Knowledge and Technology Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, USA5 Popular Beliefs about the Human Body in Antiquity Page duBois, University of California, San Diego, USA6 Reflections on Erotic Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University, USA7 Marked Bodies: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability, and Disease Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, USA8 Marked Bodies: Divine, Human, and Bestial Marguerite Johnson, The University of Newcastle, Australia9 The Body of a Hero: Images of Herakles and Their Political Use in Antiquity Amalia Avramidou, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium10 The Self from Homer to Charlemagne Marc Mastrangelo, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index