The eye of the beholder : deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman world
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The eye of the beholder : deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman world
Cornell University Press, 1995
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Bibliography: p. [203]-216
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Garland here offers the first detailed investigation of the plight of those Greeks and Romans who, owing either to deformity or to disability, did not meet their society's exacting criteria for the ideal human form. Drawing on classical drama and poetry, historical works, medical tracts, vase painting and sculpture, mythology, and ethnography, Garland examines the high incidence of disability and deformity among the Greek and Roman population.
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