Dwarfs in ancient Egypt and Greece
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Dwarfs in ancient Egypt and Greece
（Oxford monographs on classical archaeology）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 1988
Bibliography: p. [326]-333
Includes indexes
First published in paperback 2013
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Veronique Dasen here examines dwarfs in myth and everyday life in ancient Egypt and Greece. In both cultures physical beauty was highly admired, even to excess. What happened to those whose appearance did not conform to the `ideal proportion'? The spectacular forms of dwarfism were always a focus of interest, and it is the most depicted disorder in antiquity.
In this study Dr Dasen brings together for the first time a whole range of mostly unpublished or little known iconographic, epigraphic, literary, and anthropological evidence. She covers areas such as the history of caricature and the portrait; medical history, in particular the development of the perception of congenital disorders; social history; and history of religion, with questions on the magical and ritual efficacy of the malformed in sacred and theatrical contexts. She considers also
the complex relations between mythology and ethnography, as shown, for example, in the Greek myth of the Pygmies. This is a fascinating work, with a wealth of insights for anyone interested in the history of medicine or the ancient world.
目次
- Part 1 The medical context: typology of growth disorders
- palaeopathology. Part 1 Egypt: terminology, iconographic conventions
- anonymous dwarf gods - Bes, Ptah-Pataikoi
- human dwarfs. Part 3 Greece: terminology
- iconographic conventions
- dwarfs in myth
- physical minorities
- human dwarfs.
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