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Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award de Caroline Vout

Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award: Wellcome Collection

Autor Caroline Vout
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2026
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential and hugely enjoyable' Katy Hessel'A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks' Peter FrankopanCast in buff bronze and carved in white marble, it's easy to see the Greek and Roman body as flawless. But this is a lie. Reaching beyond the galleries and behind the myths, classicist Caroline Vout exposes Greek and Roman bodies for what they truly were: anxious, ailing, imperfect and diverse - and responsible for a legacy as lasting as their statutes. Beautifully illustrated, and delving into questions of life, death, morality and personhood, Exposed reveals the classical body in all its flesh-and-blood glory.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781806492152
ISBN-10: 1806492156
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Wellcome Collection
Seria Wellcome Collection

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Caroline (Carrie) Vout is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She is also Director of Cambridge's Museum of Classical Archaeology and has curated exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Carrie has appeared on Woman's Hour and In Our Time, and contributed pieces to magazines such as Apollo, Minerva, History Today, and to Times Literary Supplement and Observer. In 2012 and 2013, she chaired the judging panel of the John D. Criticos Prize, and from 2019 to 2024 holds the Byvanck Chair at Leiden University. She has given public lectures across the world, and is regularly invited to talk to schools.

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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
Caroline Vout, in this fascinating book, takes us far beyond the white marble 'perfection' of the sculptures that line modern museum walls ... It's an eye-opener
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?"