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The Grotesque Body in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

by: Meintani, A.

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Category: Image & Context / ISSN 1868-4777
Code: 28482
ISBN-13: 9783110691733 / 978-3-11-069173-3
ISBN-10: 3110691736 / 3-11-069173-6
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Publication Date: 2022
Publication Place: Berlin
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: New
Comments: Image & Context 21

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Figurines exhibiting a distorted appearance were exceptionally à la mode in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Archaeologists have attributed a wide gamut of functions to them. The underlying common denominator of all the propounded theories is that the purpose of these images was the lampoon and degradation of the dregs of society and of the physically deformed. This book argues that such statuettes conversely carried deeply positive meanings.

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Anastasia Meintani, Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Austria.

 
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The Grotesque Body in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

by: Meintani, A.

  • ISBN-13: 9783110691733 / 978-3-11-069173-3
  • ISBN-03: 3110691736 / 3-11-069173-6
  • Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2022

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