ABSTRACT

First Published in 2004. The seventeenth-century physician John Bulwer’s book, better known by its neologistic classical title Anthropometamorphosis, ‘humanitychanging’, provided the inspiration for a conference held in the Classics Department at Warwick University in April 1994. The papers delivered there are the nucleus of this collection.

chapter 1|10 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

Part I PERFECT BODIES, IMPERFECT BODIES

part |2 pages

Part II BODIES AND SIGNS IN LATIN LITERATURE

chapter 4|23 pages

EXUVIAS EFFIGIEMQUE

Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign

chapter 5|17 pages

BODIES IN FLUX

Ovid’s Metamorphoses

part |2 pages

Part III MODIFYING THE EARLY CHRISTIAN BODY

chapter 6|17 pages

BODIES AND BLOOD

Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity and resurrection

chapter 7|21 pages

READING THE DISJOINTED BODY IN COPTIC

From physical modification to textual fragmentation

part |2 pages

Part IV THE ANCIENT BODY’S TRAJECTORY THROUGH TIME

chapter 9|36 pages

UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS

Mummies and the erotics of biography

chapter 10|15 pages

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