The Body in GrecoRoman Culture Different societies construct the human body differently. When we as modern persons read ancient documents, especially the Bible, and come across words like body and soul, spiritual and physical, we naturally take them to mean about what they mean in modern culture. In this chapter I will attempt to show how...Learn More

The Rhetoric of the Body Politic "If one were to run through the entire list of citizens, I believe he would not discover even two men in Tarsus who think alike, but on the contrary, just as with certain incurable and distressing diseases which are accustomed to pervade the whole body, exempting no member of it from their inroads, so this state of...Learn More