Screen LibraryThe 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 |
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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. |