Disabilities in Roman antiquity : disparate bodies, a capite ad calcem /

This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic from head to toe: mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorder, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteolo...

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Other Authors: Laes, Christian (Editor), Goodey, C. F. (Editor), Rose, Martha L., 1957- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; v. 356.
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