Hatzaki Myrto:
Beauty And The Male Body In Byzantium
Perceptions And Representations In Art And Text
Palgrave Macmillan (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 208 pages
Size: 222x141 mm
ISBN: 9780230007154
ISBN-10: 0230007155
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Beauty And The Male Body In Byzantium
A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world.
