The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire by Shadi Bartsch

The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire

Shadi Bartsch

325 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone--or oneself--was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic el...

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