Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Autor Caroline Vouten Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2026
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781806492152
ISBN-10: 1806492156
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Wellcome Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1806492156
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Wellcome Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Caroline (Carrie) Vout is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Cambridge's Museum of Classical Archaeology. Carrie has appeared on Woman's Hour and In Our Time, and has written for Apollo, Minerva, the Times Literary Supplement and the Observer.
Recenzii
Full of arresting, sometimes startling ideas and facts that topple the Greeks and Romans from their lofty, pristine, snow-white pedestals
The illustrations are superb throughout ... packed with fascinating facts and original insights
Spectacular ... highly stimulating ... it takes a book of ambitious scope like this to challenge preconceptions of what art actually is
Written with such depth and enthusiasm, Exposed has expanded my mind on the body in the Ancient World
A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks again and again
From Ovid to the Olympics, Sophocles to spiritual Viagra, Caroline Vout is a wonderful guide, wearing her erudition lightly and with a great sense of fun.
Fascinating and compelling ... Brilliantly written and lavishly illustrated, Exposed is also the nearest thing to a classical page-turner you will read this year ... a pleasure to read
Vout sustains a fast-moving conversation with her readers. She uses an admirably wide range of texts, art and objects and shows that bodies came in many shapes, sizes and roles in antiquity too. Exposed helps us widen our minds when we turn to envisaging the ancient world
Caroline Vout takes the Greek and Roman body apart with impressive scholarship and a sublime sense of humour. In Exposed she goes well beyond our cliché view of the classical human form and reveals in unflinching detail what it was really like for the Greeks and Romans to inhabit their mortal coils and by extension the world about them. Of course in doing so she unavoidably directs us to contemplate the same. So if you have a body you should definitely read this. Oh and did I mention it made me laugh out loud too?"
The illustrations are superb throughout ... packed with fascinating facts and original insights
Spectacular ... highly stimulating ... it takes a book of ambitious scope like this to challenge preconceptions of what art actually is
Written with such depth and enthusiasm, Exposed has expanded my mind on the body in the Ancient World
A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks again and again
From Ovid to the Olympics, Sophocles to spiritual Viagra, Caroline Vout is a wonderful guide, wearing her erudition lightly and with a great sense of fun.
Fascinating and compelling ... Brilliantly written and lavishly illustrated, Exposed is also the nearest thing to a classical page-turner you will read this year ... a pleasure to read
Vout sustains a fast-moving conversation with her readers. She uses an admirably wide range of texts, art and objects and shows that bodies came in many shapes, sizes and roles in antiquity too. Exposed helps us widen our minds when we turn to envisaging the ancient world
Caroline Vout takes the Greek and Roman body apart with impressive scholarship and a sublime sense of humour. In Exposed she goes well beyond our cliché view of the classical human form and reveals in unflinching detail what it was really like for the Greeks and Romans to inhabit their mortal coils and by extension the world about them. Of course in doing so she unavoidably directs us to contemplate the same. So if you have a body you should definitely read this. Oh and did I mention it made me laugh out loud too?"