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Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam, Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character f, Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam

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Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam
Written by author Simon Swain
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, July 2006
Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character f
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List of Illustrations     ix
Introduction   Simon Swain     1
Antiquity
Physiognomy and Ancient Psychological Theory   George Boys-Stones     19
Polemon's Physiognomy   Simon Swain     125
Physiognomies: Art and Text   Jas Elsner     203
Islam
The Islamic Background to Polemon's Treatise   Robert Hoyland     227
The Semiotic Paradigm: Physiognomy and Medicine in Islamic Culture   Antonella Ghersetti     281
Polemon's Physiognomy in the Arabic Tradition   Antonella Ghersetti   Simon Swain     309
Texts and Translations
A New Edition and Translation of the Leiden Polemon   Robert Hoyland     329
The Istanbul Polemon (TK Recension): Edition and Translation of the Introduction   Antonella Ghersetti     465
The Physiognomy of Adamantius the Sophist   Ian Repath     487
Anonymus Latinus, Book of Physiognomy   Ian Repath     549
The Physiognomy Attributed to Aristotle   Simon Swain     637
Bibliography     663
Index     691

Title: Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam

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