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Seeing the face, seeing the soul

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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. - ;Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character from appearanc

Title Seeing the face, seeing the soul : Polemon's Physiognomy from classical antiquity to medieval Islam / edited by Simon Swain
with contributions by George Boys-Stones [and five others].
Publisher Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2007
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
List of Illustrations
1.Introduction
PART I. ANTIQUITY
2.Physiognomy and Ancient Psychological Theory
3.Polemon's Physiognomy
4.Physiognomics: Art and Text
PART II. ISLAM
5.The Islamic Background to Polemon's Treatise
6.The Semiotic Paradigm: Physiognomy and Medicine in Islamic Culture
7.Polemon's Physiognomy in the Arabic Tradition
PART III. TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
8.A New Edition and Translation of the Leiden Polemon
9.The Istanbul Polemon (TK Recension): Edition and Translation of the Introduction
10.The Physiognomy of Adamantius the Sophist
11.Anonymus Latinus, Book of PhysiognomyAppendix: The Physiognomy Attributed to Aristotle
Bibliography
Index
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Extent 1 online resource (710 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2007
National Library system number 997010714392005171
MARC RECORDS
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كتاب الفراسة / لفيلمون الحكيم ويليه جمل احكام الفراسة لابي بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازى المنوفى سنة 311.

فليمون الحكيم، نحو 88-145

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