Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient RomePrinceton University Press, 2004 - 202 pagine Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event gesticulate with thumbs. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by surviving Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, Anthony Corbeill analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius. Adopting approaches from anthropology, gender studies, and ecological theory, Nature Embodied offers both a series of case studies and an overarching narrative of the role and meanings of gesture in ancient Rome. |
Sommario
CHAPTER | 5 |
Participatory Gestures in Roman Religious Ritual and Medicine | 12 |
CHAPTER 4 | 24 |
CHAPTER 2 | 43 |
CHAPTER 3 | 51 |
The Gestures of Mourning Women | 67 |
51 | 77 |
65 | 83 |
Roman Death Ritual as DoubleBirth | 89 |
Second Funeral | 95 |
Conclusion | 105 |
Walking and Ideology in Republican Rome | 107 |
CHAPTER 5 | 140 |
Bibliography | 169 |
187 | |