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Jane (Hrsg.) Draycott

Prostheses in Antiquity

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Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual's appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily the case. The ancient literary and documentary evidence for prostheses and prosthesis use is contradictory, and the bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence is enigmatic, but discretion and utility were not necessarily priorities. So, when, howand why did individuals utilise them? This volume, the first to explore prostheses and prosthesis use… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-351-23237-1
  • EAN: 9781351232371
  • Produktnummer: 28799873
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 7'196 KB
  • Abbildungen: 80 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor


Jane Draycott is Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Ancient Science and Technology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Previously she was Lecturer in Classics at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Associate Teacher in Roman Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, all in the UK, and 2011-12 Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome, Italy.

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