Reviews

Bodies, bodies everywhere; bodies that attract desire, disgust, anger, curiosity and, recently, the attention of academics in a host of different disciplines. Andrew Stewart’s compelling, lucid and handsomely illustrated Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece is part of this trend; it argues that we need to examine freshly countless bodies—from the supremely beautiful to the monstrous and deformed—depicted during Greece’s archaic and classical periods (eighth to fourth century B.C.). Stewart takes as his starting point the “Greek infatuation with the human body,” which he proposes to elucidate by combining recent critical methodologies with close readings of the […]