The staff of Oedipus : transforming disability in ancient Greece

Rose, Martha L. 1957- (Author).

Summary: "The Staff of Oedipus looks at a wide range of writing on disability within the framework of ancient social history. Martha L. Rose examines not only ancient literature, but also evidence from papyri, skeletal remains, inscriptions, sculpture, and painting, as well as modern sources, including disability autobiographies, medical research, and the burgeoning scholarship and theoretical work in the field of disability studies."--Jacket

Record details

ISBN: 0472035738
ISBN: 9780472035731
ISBN: 9780472113392
ISBN: 0472113399
ISBN: 6612991364
ISBN: 9786612991363
ISBN: 9781282991361
ISBN: 1282991361
ISBN: 0472026267
ISBN: 9780472026265
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, ©2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. The Landscape of Disability -- 2. Killing Defective Babies -- 3. Demosthenes' Stutter: Overcoming Impairment -- 4. Croesus's Other Son: Deafness in a Culture of Communication -- 5. Degrees of Sight and Blindness -- Conclusions: Ability and Disability in Lysias 24.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.