The mirror of the self : sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire / Shadi Bartsch.

Author/creator Bartsch, Shadi, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Descriptionviii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents The mirror of philosophy -- The incentive to virtue -- The index of vanity -- The mirror of the soul -- The eye of the lover -- Ancient optics -- Eros and the eye -- Ovid's Narcissus -- Hostius quadra -- Scopic paradigms at Rome -- Under the imago -- The penetrating gaze -- Senatorial safeguards -- The philosopher's body -- The self on display -- Seneca's witness -- The philosopher's theater -- The metamorphosis of persona -- Models of personhood -- The second-order self -- Rethinking reflexivity -- Medea's Meditatio.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-312) and index.
LCCN 2005033447
ISBN0226038351 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226038353

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks B105.R27 B37 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold