Veronique Dasen (Univ Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology

Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines dwarfs in myth and everyday life in ancient Egypt and Greece. The spectacular forms of dwarfism were always a focus of interest, and it is the most depicted disorder in antiquity. Dasen brings together a whole range of mostly unpublished or little-known iconographic, epigraphic, literary, and anthropological evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 246mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 872g
• ISBN-13: 9780199680863
• ISBN-10: 0199680868
• Artikelnr.: 37085654

Autorenporträt

Veronique Dasen is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Fribourg.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of Plates
List of Figures
Abbreviations
General Introduction
I Medical Context
1: Typology of Growth Disorders
2: Palaeopathology
II Egypt
3: Terminology
4: Iconographic Conventions
5: Anonymous Dwarf Gods
6: Bes
7: Ptah-Pataikoi
8: Physical Minorities
9: Human Dwarfs
10: Conclusion
III Greece
11: Terminology
12: Iconographic Conventions
13: Dwarfs in Myth
14: Physical Minorities
15: Human Dwarfs
16: Conclusion
General Conclusion
IV Catalogues
Egypt
Greek World
Skeletal Remains
Glossary of medical terms
Bibliography
Index
Plates