Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from th…
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from th…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Debating the anatomical votive -- 1 Corpora in connection: anatomical votives and the confession stelai of Lydia and Phrygia -- 2 Partible humans and …
Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called 'anatomical votives'. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imag…