Corinthian Body

"Martin's point of entry to this world [of first century Greece and Rome] is the way in which the human body was commonly constructed, both in itself and as a metaphor for much else. It was so far removed from the Catesian body-mind dichotomy which has, until recently, marked so many of our assumptions. Instead, the nature of the human being (with the male as distinctly the norm) was commonly seen as a hierarchical whole, whose elements (both, in our terms, physical and psychological) fused to each other, interacted and making, ideally, a single harmony. What was true of the individual was mirrored in the social entities, notably household and city, which were the larger scenes of his life."Martin, Dale B. is the author of 'Corinthian Body' with ISBN 9780300081725 and ISBN 0300081723.