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Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Hardback Book

Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds Hardback

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In this book, a distinguished international cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art.

Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the construction of facial expression in Greek and Roman epic; the significance of gesture and body language in the visual meaning of ancient sculpture; the evidence for gesture and performance style in the texts of ancient drama; the erotic significance of feet and footprints; and, the role of gesture in Roman law.

The volume seeks to apply a sense of history as well as of theory in interpreting non-verbal communication.

It looks both at the cross-cultural and at the culturally specific in its treatment of this important but long-neglected aspect of Classical Studies.

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