The mirror of the self : sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire /

The mirror of the self : sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bartsch, Shadi, 1966-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Description:	viii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Reflection (Philosophy) -- History. Self-knowledge, Theory of -- History. Sex -- History. Philosophy, Ancient. Philosophy, Ancient. Reflection (Philosophy) Self-knowledge, Theory of. Sex. History.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6009892

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ISBN:	0226038351 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-312) and index.
Standard no.:	9780226038353

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Mirror of Philosophy
The Incentive to Virtue
The Index of Vanity
The Mirror of the Soul
2. The Eye of the Lover
Ancient Optics
Eros and the Eye
Ovid's Narcissus
Hostius Quadra
3. Scopic Paradigms at Rome
Under the Imago
The Penetrating Gaze
Senatorial Safeguards
The Philosopher's Body
4. The Self on Display
Seneca's Witness
The Philosopher's Theater
The Metamorphosis of Persona
5. Models of Personhood
The Second-Order Self
Rethinking Reflexivity
Medea's Meditatio
References
Index