Shifting Species: Animal and Human Bodies in Attic Vase Painting of the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C.

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. A. Introduction 1
4. B. The Body in Performance
5. Sermo corporis: Ancient Reflections on gestus, vultus and vox 15
6. Bodies and Topographies in Ancient Stylistic Theory 45
7. Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople 63
8. C. The Erotic Body
9. Man as Monster: Eros and Hubris in Plato’s Symposium ∗ 87
10. Corpus erat: Sulpicia’s Elegiac Text and Body in Ovid’s Pygmalion Narrative (Met. 10.238-297) 111
11. Transsexuals and Transvestites in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 125
12. D. The Dressed Body
13. Body-Modification in Classical Greece 155
14. “Clothes Make the Man”: Dressing the Roman Freedman Body 181
15. E. Pagan and Christian Bodies
16. The Female Body in Late Antiquity: Between Virtue, Taboo and Eroticism 215
17. Early Christian and Judicial Bodies 237
18. F. Animal Bodies and Human Bodies
19. Shifting Species: Animal and Human Bodies in Attic Vase Painting of the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C. 261
20. Exemplary Animals: Greek Animal Statues and Human Portraiture 283
21. Backmatter 311