Christian LAES, C.F. GOODEY and M. Lynn ROSE,
Ed. Brill,
Leyde, Nederland,
2013
This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of
disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem,
from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual
disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders,
hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and
visual representations of disparate bodies. The authors fully engage
with literary, papyrological, and epigraphical sources, while
iconography and osteo-archaeology are taken into account. Also the late
ancient evidence is taken into account. Refraining from a radical
constructionist standpoint, the contributors acknowledge the possibility
of discovering significant differences in the way impairment was
culturally viewed or assessed.
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