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Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome

Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome Hardback - 2003

by Anthony Corbeill

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Hardback. New. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, this title 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.
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  • Title Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome
  • Author Anthony Corbeill
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-12-04
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780691074948
  • ISBN 9780691074948 / 0691074941
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 7.02 x 0.77 in (22.71 x 17.83 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Rome - Social life and customs, Latin literature - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003045782
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.222

First line

WE LAUGH AT this anecdote because of its painful truth, especially for those of us who have tricky joints.

From the rear cover

"Showing exemplary control of his Latin sources, Corbeill alerts readers to Roman feelings about certain formal and ritual gestures, about stance and gait, and about facial expressions. He makes a significant contribution to Roman history and historiography--and to our understanding of the Roman soul."--Alan L. Boegehold, Brown University, author of When a Gesture was Expected

"This is an important successor to the author's well received and frequently cited Controlling Laughter. Corbeill argues that gesture responds to nature as man's instinct for harmonizing bodily existence with the power of the earth but, with increased social complexity, becomes systematized and studied. In contrast to other treatments, Corbeill's range of gesture includes not merely what is done with the hands or prescribed in rhetorical treatises but all aspects of bodily movement, facial expression, dress, posture."--Eleanor Winsor Leach, Indiana University, author of The Rhetoric of Space

About the author

Anthony Corbeill is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Controlling Laughter (Princeton) and the editor of Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.