LEADER 05035 am 22006493u 450 001 9910372750303321 005 20231110230920.0 010 $a3-11-064268-9 010 $a3-11-064269-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110642698 035 $a(CKB)4100000009751812 035 $a(OAPEN)1006939 035 $a(DE-B1597)500086 035 $a(OCoLC)1129148590 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110642698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6209801 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6209801 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34313 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009751812 100 $a20200406h20192020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aVisualizing the invisible with the human body $ePhysiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world /$fJ. Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru 210 $aBerlin/Boston$cDe Gruyter$d2020 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (501) 225 0 $aScience, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ;$v10 311 $a3-11-061826-5 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction to "Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world" -- $t1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia -- $t2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy -- $t3. Um?atu in omen and medical texts: An overview -- $t4. The series ?umma Ea liballi?ka revisited -- $t5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy -- $t6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic -- $t7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor -- $t8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics -- $t9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics -- $t10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the 'ethnographicising' register in the second sophistic -- $t11. Representing the insane -- $t12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative -- $t13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian "Secret of Secrets" -- $t14. 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-Asr?r) or to one of its sources? -- $t15. A lost Greek text on physiognomy by Archelaos of Alexandria in Arabic translation transmitted by Ibn Ab? ??lib al-Dimashq?: An edition and translation of the fragments with glossaries of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions -- $tIndex 330 $aPhysiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient's external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological 'types' that had emerged in the Hellenistic period.This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity. 410 0$aScience, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 606 $aLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval$2bicssc 606 $aHistory of science$2bicssc 607 $aGriechenland$2gnd$gAltertum 607 $aIndien$2gnd 607 $aMesopotamien$2gnd 607 $aRo?misches Reich$2gnd 608 $aLiterary collections.$2fast 608 $aEarly works.$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 610 $aPhysiognomy Description Ekphrasis 615 7$aLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval 615 7$aHistory of science 676 $a809 700 $aCale Johnson$b J$4edt$01371609 702 $aJohnson$b J. Cale, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aStavru$b Alessandro, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910372750303321 996 $aVisualizing the invisible with the human body$93401073 997 $aUNINA