Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy From Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam

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Oxford University Press (2007)
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Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy.

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