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Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam Boys-Stones, George (Lecturer in Classics, University of Durham)
Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam
Boys-Stones, George (Lecturer in Classics, University of Durham)
Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy.
712 pages, 4 figures, 7 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 10, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199291533 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 712 |
| Dimensions | 165 × 242 × 44 mm · 1.17 kg |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Swain, Simon (Professor of Classics, University of Warwick) |