The mirror of the self:sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire
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University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago |
Publication Dates: | 2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 325 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0226038351 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226038353 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | B017 |
CLC: | B017.9 |
Call Number: | B017.9/B294 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-312) and index. The mirror of philosophy -- The incentive to virtue -- The index of vanity -- The mirror of the soul -- The eye of the lover -- Ancient optics -- Eros and the eye -- Ovid's Narcissus -- Hostius quadra -- Scopic paradigms at Rome -- Under the imago -- The penetrating gaze -- Senatorial safeguards -- The philosopher's body -- The self on display -- Seneca's witness -- The philosopher's theater -- The metamorphosis of persona -- Models of personhood -- The second-order self -- Rethinking reflexivity -- Medea's Meditatio. |