Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam by George Boys-Stones
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

George Boys-Stones with Robert G. Hoyland, George Boys-Stones, Jaś Elsner, Antonella Ghersetti, Ian Repath

600 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary reflective medium-paced
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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 from ap...

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