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The mirror of the self : sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire / Shadi Bartsch.
Van Pelt Library B105.R27 B37 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bartsch, Shadi, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reflection (Philosophy)--History.
- Reflection (Philosophy).
- Self-knowledge, Theory of--History.
- Self-knowledge, Theory of.
- Sex--History.
- Sex.
- History.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226038351
- OCLC:
- 62393035
- Publisher Number:
- 9780226038353
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