Bodily fluids in antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…The (un)importance of blood in early Greek literature and religion / Emily Kearns -- Taste and the senses in Galen's humours / John Wilkins -- Breastmilk, breastfeeding and the female body in early Imperial Rome / Thea Lawrence -- Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena : early Christian stories of lactation in context / Laurence Totelin -- Tears and the leaky vessel : permeable and fluid bodies in Ovid and Lucretius / Peter Kelly -- Seneca's Corpus : a sympathy of fluids and fluctuations / Michael Goyette -- Bodily fluids, grotesque imagery, and poetics in Persius' Satires / Andreas Gavrielatos -- 'Efflux is my manifestation' : positive conceptions of putrefactive fluids in the ancient Egyptian coffin texts / Tasha Dobbin-Bennett -- Physiology of matricide : revenge and metabolism imagery in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Goran Vidović -- Open wounds, liquid bodies, and melting selves in early imperial Latin literature / Assaf Krebs -- The reception of classical constructions of blood in medieval and early modern martyrologies / Anastasia Stylianou -- 'Expelling the purple tyrant from the citadel' : the menstruation debate in Book 2 of Abraham Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex (1662) / Caroline Spearing -- Opening the body of fluids : taking in and pouring out in Renaissance readings of classical women / Helen King -- Envoi / Mark Bradley and Victoria Leonard.…”
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Bodily fluids in antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…The (un)importance of blood in early Greek literature and religion / Emily Kearns -- Taste and the senses in Galen's humours / John Wilkins -- Breastmilk, breastfeeding and the female body in early Imperial Rome / Thea Lawrence -- Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena : early Christian stories of lactation in context / Laurence Totelin -- Tears and the leaky vessel : permeable and fluid bodies in Ovid and Lucretius / Peter Kelly -- Seneca's Corpus : a sympathy of fluids and fluctuations / Michael Goyette -- Bodily fluids, grotesque imagery, and poetics in Persius' Satires / Andreas Gavrielatos -- 'Efflux is my manifestation' : positive conceptions of putrefactive fluids in the ancient Egyptian coffin texts / Tasha Dobbin-Bennett -- Physiology of matricide : revenge and metabolism imagery in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Goran Vidović -- Open wounds, liquid bodies, and melting selves in early imperial Latin literature / Assaf Krebs -- The reception of classical constructions of blood in medieval and early modern martyrologies / Anastasia Stylianou -- 'Expelling the purple tyrant from the citadel' : the menstruation debate in Book 2 of Abraham Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex (1662) / Caroline Spearing -- Opening the body of fluids : taking in and pouring out in Renaissance readings of classical women / Helen King -- Envoi / Mark Bradley and Victoria Leonard.…”
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