{"id":1601,"date":"2019-11-29T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2020-04-29T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:17:02","slug":"visualizing-the-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/2019\/11\/29\/visualizing-the-invisible\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the invisible…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world<\/strong> Edited by J. Cale Johnson and Alessandro Stavru<\/p>\n

De Gruyter (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 10)
\nHardcover ISBN 978-3-11-061826-6 RRP \u20ac [D] 99.95 \/ US$ 114.99 \/ GBP 91.00*
\nOPEN ACCESS (through funding from the BabMed Project)
\nAvailable online at:<https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/viewbooktoc\/product\/509865<\/a>><\/p>\n

Part I: Mesopotamia and India<\/strong>
\n1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia — J. Cale Johnson (pp. 11-40)
\n2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy — Kenneth Zysk (pp. 41-60)
\n3. Um\u1e63atu in omen and medical texts: An overview — Silvia Salin (pp. 61-80)
\n4. The series \u0160umma Ea liballi\u1e6dka revisited — Eric Schmidtchen (pp. 81-118)
\n5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy — Marvin Schreiber (pp. 119-140)<\/p>\n

Part II: Classical Antiquity<\/strong>
\n6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic — Alessandro Stavru (pp. 143-160)
\n7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor — Dorella Cianci (pp. 161-182)
\n8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics — Laetitia Marcucci (pp. 183-202)
\n9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius\u2019 De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics — Gian Franco Chiai (pp. 203-226)
\n10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the \u2018ethnographicising\u2019 register in the second sophistic — Antti Lampinen (pp. 227-270)
\n11. Representing the insane — Maria Gerolemou (pp. 271-282)<\/p>\n

Part III: Semitic traditions<\/strong>
\n12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative — Cory Crawford (pp. 285-320)
\n13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian \u201cSecret of Secrets\u201d — Regula Forster (pp.
\n321-346)
\n14. Ekphrasis of a manuscript (MS London, British Library, Or. 12070).
\nIs the \u201cLondon Physiognomy\u201d a fake or a \u201csemi-fake,\u201d and is it a witness to the Secret of Secrets (Sirr al-Asr\u0101r) or to one of its sources? — Emily Cottrell (pp. 347-442)
\n15. A lost Greek text on physiognomy by Archelaos of Alexandria in Arabic translation transmitted by Ibn Ab\u012b \u1e6c\u0101lib al-Dimashq\u012b: An edition and translation of the fragments with glossaries of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions — Johannes Thomann (pp. 443-484)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world Edited by J. Cale Johnson and Alessandro Stavru De Gruyter (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 10) Hardcover ISBN 978-3-11-061826-6 RRP \u20ac [D] 99.95 \/ US$ 114.99 \/ GBP 91.00* OPEN ACCESS (through funding from the BabMed Project) Available online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}