8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction to “Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world” 1
4. Part I: Mesopotamia and India
5. 1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia 11
6. 2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy 41
7. 3. Umṣatu in omen and medical texts: An overview 61
8. 4. The series Šumma Ea liballiṭka revisited 81
9. 5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy 119
10. Part II: Classical Antiquity
11. 6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic 143
12. 7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor 161
13. 8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics 183
14. 9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics 203
15. 10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the ‘ethnographicising’ register in the second sophistic 227
16. 11. Representing the insane 271
17. Part III: Semitic traditions
18. 12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative 285
19. 13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian “Secret of Secrets” 321
20. 14. Ekphrasis of a manuscript (MS London, British Library, Or. 12070). Is the “London Physiognomy” a fake or a “semi-fake,” and is it a witness to the Secret of Secrets (Sirr al-Asrār) or to one of its sources? 347
21. 15. A lost Greek text on physiognomy by Archelaos of Alexandria in Arabic translation transmitted by Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī: An edition and translation of the fragments with glossaries of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions 443
22. Index 485