The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World by Robert Garland

The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World

Robert Garland

222 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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Garland here offers the first detailed investigation of the plight of those Greeks and Romans who, owing either to deformity or to disability, did not meet their society's exacting criteria for the ideal human form. Drawing on classical drama and ...

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