EAN: 9781788162913

EXPOSED - CAROLINE VOUT KARTONIERT (TB)

WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY
TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity'
Gavin Francis 'A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks' Peter
Frankopan The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze
and white marble  to sit upon a pedestal. But this  of course  is a lie. Here  classicist
Caroline Vout reaches beyond texts and galleries to expose Greek and Roman bodies for what they
truly were: anxious  ailing  imperfect  diverse  and responsible for a legacy as lasting as
their statues. Taking us on a gruesome  thrilling journey  she taps into the questions that
those in the Greek and Roman worlds asked about their bodies - where do we come from? What
makes us different from gods and animals? What happens to our bodies  and the forces that
govern them  when we die? You've seen the paintings  read the philosophers and heard the myths
- now here's the classical body in all its flesh and blood glory.

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