Seeing the face, seeing the soul

Oxford University Press

2007

ix, 699 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [663]-690) and index.

9780199291533

ContentsIntroduction / Simon Swain -- Pt. I. Antiquity -- Physiognomy and ancient psychological theory / George Boys-Stone -- Polemon's Physiognomy / Simon Swain -- Physiognomics : art and text / Jaś Elsner -- Pt. II. Islam -- The Islamic background to Polemon's treatise / Robert Hoyland -- The semiotic paradigm : physiognomy and medicine in Islamic culture / Antonella Ghersetti -- Polemon's Physiognomy in the Arabic tradition / Antonella Ghersetti with Simon Swain -- Pt. III. Texts and translations -- A new edition and translation of the Leiden Polemon / Robert Hoyland -- The Istanbul Polemon (TK Recension) : edition and translation of the introduction / Antonella Ghersetti -- The Physiognomy of Adamantius the Sophist / Ian Repath -- Anonymus Latinus, Book of Physiognomy / Ian Repath -- Appendix : The Physiognomy attributed to Aristotle / Simon Swain

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